FAT32

[~~Alan~~]

I have 2 HDD, 160GB and 250GB that I want to format as FAT32. How can I do
this easily with WinXP and/or Partition Magic? Is there another utility
(free) I can get on the web to do this?

Thanks
~alan

 

[Guest]

You could try formatting it through the command line:

format drive /FS:FAT32 /Q

Remove "/Q" if you want to perform an unconditional format.

I apologize if this will not work, as I do not have a drive I'm willing to
test this on to see if you can specify FAT32 for a hard drive filesystem
through the command line.

 

[db]

you might want to
reconsider:

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&form=MSHOME&setlang=en-US&q=fat32+limitations
I have 2 HDD, 160GB and 250GB that I want to format as FAT32. How can I do
this easily with WinXP and/or Partition Magic? Is there another utility
(free) I can get on the web to do this?

Thanks
~alan

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I have 2 HDD, 160GB and 250GB that I want to format as FAT32. How can I do
this easily with WinXP and/or Partition Magic? Is there another utility
(free) I can get on the web to do this?

Thanks
~alan

By design, WinXP cannot create and format a FAT32 partition larger than
32Gb, so you'll either have to slave those hard drives into a Win98 PC
to format them, or use a 3rd party tool. BootItNG should meet your
needs; there's a free, fully functional 30-day evaluation version
available for downloading from www.bootitng.com.


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[Dave]

http://ubcd.sourceforge.net/

 

[SingaporeWebDesign]

Hello,

Use this utility - fat32format - to format FAT32 drives larger than 32GB
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm

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[~~Alan~~]

Learned a few things here. I created a 32GB partition and formatted it
FAT32. Then with Partition Magic, I expanded the partition to 250 GB.

That was simple.

Thanks,
~alan

 

[Dave]

For simplicity, why didn't you use PM only, period?

 

[~~Alan~~]

I tried but because of the size of the disk, PM or anything else I had would
not allow me to format a rather large disk. After reading aout the
restriction, I created a small partition, formatted it and then PM allowed
me to expand the size.

Live and learn.

~alan