FAT 32

[David Mendelow]

I am difficult formatting an external disk in FAT 32.
K.Base # 300030 say to create an unformatted partition,
close disk mgt and then format in windows explorer.
#300030 don't work. can any one help?
thanks

 

[Carl G]

You can partition and format your hard drive in disk management

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I am difficult formatting an external disk in FAT 32.
K.Base # 300030 say to create an unformatted partition,
close disk mgt and then format in windows explorer.
#300030 don't work. can any one help?
thanks

How large is thehard drive/partitions in question? By design,
WinXP cannot create and format a new partition greater than 32 Gb.
This is because NTFS is the superior file system, and not nearly as
wasteful of drive space. (If you make a FAT32 partition larger than 8
Gb, you're "throwing away" significant amounts of storage capacity.
However, the OS has no problems being installed upon or otherwise
using FAT32 a partition larger than 32 GB, as long as that partition
has been created/formatted by another OS, such as Win98.

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[wayne]

-----Original Message-----
I am difficult formatting an external disk in FAT 32.
K.Base # 300030 say to create an unformatted partition,
close disk mgt and then format in windows explorer.
#300030 don't work. can any one help?
thanks
.
I am having the same problem. I am unable to select Fat

32. The only option available is NTFS and I did not want to
use that in case I put the drive on a Win 98 machine.