going mad, need a drive in fat32

right man i am getting annoyed i have a drive i want in fat 32 the comp wont let me only ntfs and exfat

i tried swissknife and it keeps crashing on my comp constantly

i hear you con do it in the dos run menu but i dont want to wait ;-)

anyone ??

Win7 by any chance?

Drop down to DOS (CMD) and enter....

format <drive letter>: /FS:FAT32


What makes you think DOS is slow, give me DOS any day.

aye thats the one that will take hours wi a 320 hard drive

aye buggering windows 7

P33 RRV said:

aye thats the one that will take hours wi a 320 hard drive

aye buggering windows 7

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Not a chance, it formatted my 1TB drive in about 20 minutes.

A wee 320 drive will be much less, and there is always the /Q flag if you are in a hurry.

Would partition wizard on hirens boot disc not do it?

hoppy said:

Would partition wizard on hirens boot disc not do it?

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Might do, but why bother when a simple command line will do the same thing?

what size are you trying to convert to fat32? max file size is 32GB so its not going to work unless you partitions the space into sections of 32GB

is that not right ?

well 15 mins in i am at 10% :-(

P33 RRV said:

well 15 mins in i am at 10% :-(

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I done same mate took fckn ages then it was pointless. didnt work

for me anyway

P33 RRV said:

well 15 mins in i am at 10% :-(

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You didn't tell it to use Quick Format.

That's what the /Q flag is.

@ Rodbouy 32Gb????

Aye, back in 1980 with FAT12 or some other ancient File system

Fat32 supports 8TB drives in 32bit clusters or is it 64bit clusters? :err:

File systems are independant of OS restrictions.

You Wii or Media Player is not limited to the same retraints as Windows.

Use this and you can format a fat32 partition to any size.

I had my hdd in 32gb lumps for my media player but it's only windows that limits size - this prog sorts that.

WITCHSMELLER PURSUIVANT said:

You didn't tell it to use Quick Format.

That's what the /Q flag is.

@ Rodbouy 32Gb????

Aye, back in 1980 with FAT12 or some other ancient File system

Fat32 supports 8TB drives in 32bit clusters or is it 64bit clusters? :err:

File systems are independant of OS restrictions.

You Wii or Media Player is not limited to the same retraints as Windows.

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My bad mate your right. Its the file limit with the fat32 fo 4gb that fooked me I managed to formate the HDD but was then not worth it.

WITCHSMELLER PURSUIVANT said:

Might do, but why bother when a simple command line will do the same thing?

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Because when a did it a was being stupid and did it on a quick format for a 50gb disc and made an arse of it.lol

cool i will try this tonight i ended up resorting to giving in and falling asleep

well done that man, thats well better

BigBadMan said:

Use this and you can format a fat32 partition to any size.

I had my hdd in 32gb lumps for my media player but it's only windows that limits size - this prog sorts that.

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nice little app mate, helped me!