Posted October 30, 200816 yr [think: Walken] Wow. Doris. WOW! Microsoft has had and does have several utilities that will format a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. There is a limit on why XP/2K won't do it out of the box for a good reason. Do a little research when you're not endlessly tweaking your linux quick lube back end. Doris Day2772510 Wrote: > "Dave R." <dwragle at drbsystems dot com> wrote: > > > > > "Buggs" <w@w.com> wrote in message > > news:CF53E9A6-36A4-4014-B671-285546285756@microsoft.com... > >> "Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message > >> news:OUPIL7%23fHHA.4868@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > >>> Buggs wrote: > >>>> "Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message > >>>> news:Ou0DVo%23fHHA.4936@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >>>> > >>>>> Buggs wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> I need to format my externall hard drive in fat32 so my xbox > 360 > >>>>>> can see it attached. I'm in Vista. How can I format the drive > to > >>>>>> Fat32? I know the disk management won't, but I would guess > there's > >>>>>> some software that can. I have no clue though what it would be. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> If your external HDD is over 32 gigs in size you'll have to > create > >>>>> a partiton of that size or less in order to format in FAT32. > >>>>> 32 gigs is the size limit for FAT32. > >>>>> Frank > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> then why is my cousins drive connected to their xbox 360 and it's > >>>> 200gb or bigger? it has only one partition. xbox 360 don't work > with > >>>> ntfs > >>> > >>> You tell me? Have you actually looked at it on the computer? Does > it > >>> have an over-laid BIOS? > >>> Frank > >> > >> > >> The drive was connected to a pc as fat32 while i transferred a ton > of > >> music to it. gave it to my cousin and they use it on their xbox > 360. > >> that's all i know. it is an external usb 2 drive that i think is > 250gb > >> acomdata might be the brand name. > > > > The FAT32 file system supports partition sizes of up to 2 terabytes. > > Unfortunately, MS decided back in Windows 2000 that you can't > *format* a > > partition larger than 32GB as FAT32. Windows can *use* FAT32 drives > > larger than 32GB, it just can't format them. > > > > One workaround is to use a Windows ME boot disk (I think a Windows 98 > SE > > boot disk will work too) and the Windows ME format utility. Be > really > > careful you format the correct partition if you do this - I'd > probably > > disconnect any drives other than the one I wanted to format, just to > be > > sure. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dave > > Here's a better one that costs nothing. Download GParted-Clonezilla > livecd > from here ... > > http://gparted.free.fr/GParted-Clonezilla/ > > Burn the ISO to a CD and then boot your computer with the CD. You can > then > format the complete drive as FAT32. > > Screenshots here ... > > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php > > Again, Linux to the rescue. :-) > > Love and Kisses, > Doris > > > -- > My Microsoft Hero (he loves this company!) ... > http://tinyurl.com/yp9cn2 > Get SP3 for XP here! .... http://tinyurl.com/374p49 > Title Says It All ... http://tinyurl.com/2ssodl -- silentdrowning ------------------------------------------------------------------------ silentdrowning's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?u=60725 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=729748 http://forums.techarena.in
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