[pchelpers] Re: Format Large Hard Drive w/ FAT32
- From: "Robert McLellan" <bobmclellan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 06:49:04 -0500
Susan,
By now I suspect you know that you can format a large drive with FAT32
so the question is what are you using to try to do it with? The format
command that comes with Win95 can't do it and if you put it in an older
computer who's motherboard doesn't support large drives you won't be able to
do it. But if you have a new machine and Win98 or Me boot floppies you can
do it.
Bob McLellan
----- Original Message -----
From: "s m d" <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Apparently a hard drive cannot be formatted with FAT32 if it's over 32
Gigs. We could format it as NTFS but we purposely wanted FAT32 because then
we can plunk it into other computers with other operating systems and it
would still be read by them.
>
> So how do we go about formatting this hard drive with FAT32? We was
initially purchased with FAT32 so there must be a way of doing it.
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