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Invisibleyousuck
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Partitioning Fat32 under XP
    #4968053 - 11/22/05 12:17 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I want to format and partition a secondary drive under the FAT32 format as a data storage drive. I have windows xp and it will only let me format in NTFS. Is their a way of doing this?


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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: yousuck]
    #4968123 - 11/22/05 12:36 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

boot with knoppix and format the drive fat32 from there.


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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: yousuck]
    #4968438 - 11/22/05 02:06 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Or you can try partition magic, its what I would use if I still used windows.


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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: Fungi_x]
    #4968960 - 11/22/05 04:37 PM (18 years, 2 months ago)

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Fungi_x said:
Or you can try partition magic, its what I would use if I still used windows.




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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: yousuck]
    #4971591 - 11/23/05 05:21 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

I recently purchased a 400gb drive and am using it in an old Maxtor USB external case (80gb originally). I also wanted it to be formatted in fat32.

Edit: Let me clarify that I formatted it hooked up to my standard IDE controller and formatted it. Then I transferred it into the USB case.

After a bit of searching I found a utility called fat32format.zip

Downloaded it, scanned for viruses, unzipped and used it.

Woohoo! 400gb of fat32 recognized and usable by both win98se and winxp.


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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: yousuck]
    #4971592 - 11/23/05 05:24 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Or......
set it up on a usb port on a win98se system and format it that way.

(also tried using a 300gb drive) Works fine.


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Re: Partitioning Fat32 under XP [Re: yousuck]
    #4971603 - 11/23/05 05:34 AM (18 years, 2 months ago)

Aha! Ran off and found a link for you.

Just follow the directions.


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