format 250gig wd

[Peter]

I have a 160 gig wd drive thats formatted as Fat32 and is accessible in
DOS/Win98SE and now I just got a new 250 gig western digital hard drive
and need to format it as Fat32 but winXP only allows NTFS and Partition
Magic 8 allows NTFS, Linux Ext2/3. The drive is in a USB 2 enclosure
and I need it to be accessible in DOS for ghost 2003 and in Win98SE. I
don't remember how I formatted the 160 gig drive.

Does anyone know what program I need to use to format it as Fat32?

Thanks,
Pete

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a 160 gig wd drive thats formatted as Fat32 and is accessible
in DOS/Win98SE and now I just got a new 250 gig western digital hard
drive and need to format it as Fat32 but winXP only allows NTFS and
Partition Magic 8 allows NTFS, Linux Ext2/3. The drive is in a USB 2
enclosure and I need it to be accessible in DOS for ghost 2003 and in
Win98SE. I don't remember how I formatted the 160 gig drive.

Does anyone know what program I need to use to format it as Fat32?

Anything other than XP basically. fdisk from SE will format it fine.

 

[tod]

Windows XP will only format with FAT32 up to a 32GB partition.
Try a Windows Me Bootdisk.
If I remember correctly it's not recommended to format with FAT32 a
partition larger then 128GB.
so you should think about making two 125GB partitions on the 250GB.

 

[Harry331]

Peter wrote...

I have a 160 gig wd drive thats formatted as Fat32 and is accessible in
DOS/Win98SE and now I just got a new 250 gig western digital hard drive
and need to format it as Fat32 but winXP only allows NTFS and Partition
Magic 8 allows NTFS, Linux Ext2/3.

Haven't use PM8 for ages.
But Partition Magic 8 can format a HDD to FAT32 fine.
See this URL.
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/featu
res.html

 

[Peter]

I used PM8 to create a 160gig ntfs then a 2nd partition of 70gig as
fat32. This way I can still transfer files using win98.

Pete