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Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
19-03-2011 1:19 PM
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Apparently this is possible by using the command format (drive letter): /FS:FAT32
I get the usual warning screen re loss of data etc then Y to proceed. All seems well as you see the % completed. After 100% the process closes.
But when I look at the drive via 'Disc Management' it is recognised but where is says file type it is blank.
And when I try to use this HD to back-up to my music files (from a Brenan HD music player) it refuses which makes me think that it has not been formated after all.
Any comments, help or ideas would be much appreciated.
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
19-03-2011 1:28 PM
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That will definitely give FAT32 as an option and saves delving into the command line interface.
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
19-03-2011 7:29 PM
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19-03-2011 7:58 PM
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19-03-2011 8:07 PM
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Quote (If you are technically minded the JB7 uses FAT32 so if you have a USB drive you may need to reformat the USB drive to FAT32 and if the drive is bigger than 500G you will need to partition it into smaller drives and the JB7 backup drive should be first in the partition table and be made active. Beware reformatting a drive will erase any previous data.)
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
19-03-2011 9:29 PM
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Quote from: pierre_pierre .... I have some devices that will not write to NTFS
Indeed; an Apple computer for example, or at least not without some fiddling.
I once spent some time trying to work out why I could not write a backup file to my FAT32 formatted external hard drive. The reason was that it was a very large file and FAT32 doesn't allow files of 4 Gigabytes or larger. That rather put me off FAT32, so I don't use it now unless I have to.
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
19-03-2011 11:15 PM
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Quote from: HPsauce Why not create a partition and format it through Disk Management in XP?
That will definitely give FAT32 as an option and saves delving into the command line interface.
As far as I know Disk management in XP will not format in FAT32.
Yes the Brenan uses FAT32 as quote from Brenan site.
So that leaves me with original querry..
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
20-03-2011 12:37 AM
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"In The Beginning Was The Word, And The Word Was Aardvark."
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
20-03-2011 7:15 AM
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Quote from: paulo As far as I know Disk management in XP will not format in FAT32.
I don't have XP in front of me but I'm sure that cannot be correct. XP can format floppy disks, pen drives etc. which need to be formatted with FAT32. I've done this and I'm sure I've never resorted to the format command.
Quote from: A You could use a Linux CD to do it.
Ah Linux, the answer to all our problems.
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
20-03-2011 9:21 PM
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20-03-2011 11:08 PM
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FAT32 does not seem to be an option.
Re: Formating removable hard drive for FATS32
21-03-2011 8:35 AM
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21-03-2011 8:44 AM
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21-03-2011 8:46 AM
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21-03-2011 9:12 AM
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