formatting to fat32 Solved/Closed

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Hello,
I tried formating my wd office ediotion by using run command at first I thought My drive is already formating it, but when it hit 99 percent format it declared that the volume is too big, My office edition is 640 gb by the way... but if its too big why does the process of formaying started.... please help me I dont know what to do. my os is windows xp sp2.. I had to format it with fat32 because when I format it using ntfs my dvd player could not read my media files anymore...

xpcman · Accepted Answer

Microsoft Windows XP limits a FAT32 volume to 32GB it quits formatting when it hits the 32GB mark.  You can download this free program - it should allow you to format the whole drive. You can also partition it into a number or FAT32 partitions and NTFS partitions.   Good Luck 

https://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Free-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol%3Bpop&cdlPid=10982635

hbie · Answer

Thank you so much for sharing.  It's so great and fast.  It takes just a minute.

jeyjoloco · Answer

wowwwwwwwww, I tried the program and worked for me, just took around 3 minutes to format my 500 GB EXTERNAL HDD TO FAT32 :d, tried on my ps3 and worked fine :d.
bye.
and tanks for the help :d.
p.s: I use windows xp media center edition, also tried on windows xp sp3.

TommyTom · Answer

Wow... this worked great... was waiting like 4 hours to format with CMD only to be told it was too large, then I used this program and BOOM did it in bout 4 seconds. Thanks so much :)!

hashimsaleem · Answer

thanks.

it worked just out of the box and that is only in seconds.

vanimal · Answer

I downloaded the file and put it on my external but how do I change it from NTFS TO fAT32

Crag · Answer

how do I reformat my 1.5 TD Seagat expansion external drive to FAT32. Trying to get it to be recognised on my PS3 as currently it is not recognising it!

dd · Answer

you are supposed to open the zip file and execute it, and follow the instructions to format to a FAT32

Escobar · Answer

Great, the program worked for me. cudnt use my 90GB external on my xbox 360 as ntfs but it works in fat32 format! Thanks. I did a cmd format over night and it didn't work as well, so thanks for this.

TB · Answer

just wondering, did any of you who used the program already have stuff saved on your hard drive? And if so, did you backup and delete everything or did it format without deleting? Or can you just take the NTFS formatted hard drive and create a new partition on it (somewhat like creating a new folder formatted in FAT32 while the rest of the hard drive is still NTFS)?

jahton · Answer

my external hard drive files are in ntfs how do I convert them or the whole drive to fat32

Niran · Answer

Hi XPCMAN
I managed to convert 1.5TB in seconds.  I could not believe it. And My PS3 recognises now. 
It's a fab. S/w. And thanks for sharing with us all. 
Regards Niran

Formatting to fat32

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