Re: Convert NTFS USB drive to FAT32 -- How?

it is not that a fat32 partition has a maximum size of 32gb, it is that xp
won't format a partition that is over 32gb on a usb drive as fat32. you
need a third party utility to do that. the 1tb usb drive was shipped with a
single fat32. and if a usb drive is going to migrate from windows, to
linux, to macos systems then it makes sense to keep it formatted as fat32.
i thought the suggestions offered in this thread read somewhat confusing
sounding and hope this clears it up.

"RnR" <rnrtexas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ikcnt4tev4r65q7q11evo2or1q4pb8s023@xxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:16:07 -0700, John W. Wells
<djinn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a 1T external USB drive that I re-formatted to NTFS when I
first installed it.

Now I've just purchased a DVD player that has a USB input port, but
requires that USB drives be formatted FAT32. So I want to restore the
drive to FAT32.

Right-clicking the drive in Windows Explorer offers only NTFS as a
format option.

I've tried RUN/ CMD/ format x: /FS:FAT32 which appears to want to
work, but which rejects the Drive Label name of my drive. This
occurred on both XP and Vista systems.

I also tried XP's Recovery Console which did perform a "format to
FAT32" but, nope, the result was still NTFS.

Any help appreciated--I'm at my wits' end (wife assures me half are
gone already).

--John W. Wells


Using some other posters suggestions and bearing in mind that fat32
can only work on partitions up to 32gb size, you might want to just
convert as many partitions as you need for fat32 and leave the rest as
NTFS unless you feel you just want to have one large partition.


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