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| Thread ID: 84603 | 2007-11-11 22:47:00 | Are you having problems formating your External HDD as FAT32 on Vista/ Xp | alopes (5331) | Press F1 |
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| 610593 | 2007-11-11 22:47:00 | I had recently purchased a SEAGATE 320G external HDD for $199 and must say that I was a very happy camper . Until i took it home and found out that it was factory formatted as NFTS . For the application that I need it I needed it to be formatted in FAT32 and my Vista & XP computers would not let me format it as FAT32 but only as NFTS . But I managed to find a way around the system and I hope that you will thank me for it . Follow the following instructions: If you have Vista there is a quick way to get an Admin cmd prompt . Click the Start button/ Windows flag in the bottom left of the screen and enter cmd like on XP but press Ctrl+Shift+Enter, you'll get a privilege escalation dialog click OK and you end up with an Admin command prompt, helpfully labelled as Administrator: C:\Windows\system32\cmd . exe Then use the DOS prompt to format: fat32format f: replace the "f" with the drive letter for your HDD This is the best way to run fat32format . It's always been Admin only, it's just that on XP most power users ran with Admin rights all the time . ENJOY!!! |
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| 610594 | 2007-11-11 23:07:00 | Why not just let the developer of Fat32format explain how to do it? www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk |
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