Formatting NTFS to FAT32

[Guest]

I would like to know if there is ANY way you can format a hard drive that is
NTFS to FAT32. I was using this external hard drive on my NTFS system, but I
wanted to give this hard drive to my wife, but her Windows is FAT32.

 

[peter]

connect it to your machine
under administrative tools/computer manag/disk manag...........you should be
able to reformat to fat32
peter

 

[Guest]

One thing I forgot to mention is that I have an IEEE 1394 controller card
installed in my computer, but when I plug the hard drive (using a Firewire
cable) into the controller card, the hard drive doesn't show. But when I
plug the Firewire cable into my sound card (that has a Firewire input), then
the hard drive shows up. Any ideas on why this is happening? Thanks for the
input

 

[peter]

The HD doesn't show where......under Explorer or under administrative
tools/computer manage/disk manage???
you said you used it before.....how did you access it then??
How do you know its formatted as NTFS??
peter

 

[PA20Pilot]

Hi,

Partition Magic will allow you to go back to fat32 without loss of data.
It makes good sense to do a backup before such a major system change
though. Partition Magic 8 is about $30 from ebay.


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