Formatting a USB HDD with FAT32 not NTFS!

[PAC]

I need to format a USB HDD with FAT32, but both my desktop and laptop only give me the option for NTFS 🙆🏻

 

Any ideas how I can achieve this?

Paul

[jingars]

You may have to use the Windows Disk Manager to remove and re-size the partitions upon the disk; there is a 32Gb partition size limit for NTFS.

 

Have a look at this article for more information but (at the risk of stating the obvious) please be careful in there - don't zap anything you don't want to!

[PAC]

Thanks Jingars.

 

I've got a 500Gb HDD, so need about 16 partitions

 

.....Maybe I'll rethink this

 

Paul

[davef]

32GB is a limit artificially imposed by the MS format command - the basic OS (W2k, WXP) can r/w FAT32 partitions significantly bigger than 32GB (upto 2TB).

 

ISTR there are some 3rd party formatters that will format larger than 32GB - could be worth a google for them.

 

Dave