as far as I know, there is no partition on the drive, as it is an external one, that was previously used to hold my audio/video archive, so was always just one drive. Simon ----- Original Message ----- From: George Bell To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:13 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: reformatting an NTFS drive in to a fat32 one? You will need to delete the partition first, then recreate it. Finally formatting the newly created partition should allow FAT32. George. From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of goshawk on horseback Sent: 26 February 2010 13:09 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; VICUG-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] reformating an NTFS drive in to a fat32 one? hello list, is there any way to reformat an ntfs drive, in to a fat32 one? when I go to format normally, it only gives me ntfs, with no other option. Simon