Format FAT32?

[CM]

Dear All,

I need to reformat a disk to FAT32 for use with my
USB Car audio system.

Disk mangement gives me NTFS to be the only option
as the drive was already formatted NTFS.

Does anyone know any shareware or freeware (preferably) program
that works on Vista and formats disks to FAT32?

Thanking you in advance for any info.

Carlos.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Does anyone know any shareware or freeware (preferably) program
that works on Vista and formats disks to FAT32?

How about "format.exe"? It's free (well, part of Vista)!

Say your drive appears as G:. Open a command prompt and enter the command:

C:\>format g: /FS:FAT32

Or change the drive letter, to match whatever you have.

For some reason, the Windows GUI won't let you format drives over 32GB with
FAT32 - that was true for XP as well. Dunno why, FAT32 supports volumes up
to 2 Terabytes in size and a format command works fine. Maybe that was why
you had no FAT32 option.

Hope it helps,

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Dear All,

I need to reformat a disk to FAT32 for use with my
USB Car audio system.

Disk mangement gives me NTFS to be the only option
as the drive was already formatted NTFS.

Does anyone know any shareware or freeware (preferably) program
that works on Vista and formats disks to FAT32?

Thanking you in advance for any info.

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#format

 

[CM]

Thanks for reply!

I open a DOS promt
type format F: /FS:FAT32
(my disk is F)
and i get this!!!:

Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.

What do i do now?!!

 

[mayayana]

I use BootIt for both partitioning and booting.
I don't know about Vista support, but it can
certainly create a FAT32 partition. The program
can be used for a month without payment. It's
laos well worth the $35 cost.

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

 

[Guest]

Hi Carlos,

I am assuming that you are talking about a USB memory stick. What you need
to do is this. When you insert the device into your computer, close any
auto-run screen that appears. Click Start, Computer and RIGHT click the drive
corresponding to your device. In the menu that appears, click Format. In the
next box that appears, click the downward pointing arrow on the File system
tab and select the required option, in your case FAT32. Type a Volume label
into the appropriate box (optional). Make sure that the checkbox next to
QuickFormat is clear (only essential if changing file system). Finally click
Start. Depending on the size of drive, this might take some time.
Dwarf

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

Thanks for reply!

I open a DOS promt
type format F: /FS:FAT32
(my disk is F)
and i get this!!!:

Access Denied as you do not have sufficient privileges.
You have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode.

What do i do now?!!

You have to open the Command Prompt in elevated mode, by right clicking its
icon and selecting 'Run as Administrator'.

ss.