Hard drive Formatter?

[Jester2893]

Anyone know of a free hard drive formatter, that can reformat a hard drive into FAT32 ?

[Krandall]

plug the drive into your computer.

Right click on my computer select "Manage"

Click on "Disk Management"


Find the drive. Right click. Click format..


Why the FAT system? NTFS is a lot nicer.

[Jester2893]

plug the drive into your computer.

Right click on my computer select "Manage"

Click on "Disk Management"


Find the drive. Right click. Click format..


Why the FAT system? NTFS is a lot nicer.

Thanks, but it needs to be in the FAT system because its the only format my gay 360 will understand.

[Krandall]

plug the drive into your computer.

Right click on my computer select "Manage"

Click on "Disk Management"


Find the drive. Right click. Click format..


Why the FAT system? NTFS is a lot nicer.

Thanks, but it needs to be in the FAT system because its the only format my (Manly challenged) 360 will understand.

Gotcha...

You'd think of all people Microsoft would support their own system...


Yeah, in there though you'll see options for the format type.

[Jester2893]

plug the drive into your computer.

Right click on my computer select "Manage"

Click on "Disk Management"


Find the drive. Right click. Click format..


Why the FAT system? NTFS is a lot nicer.

Thanks, but it needs to be in the FAT system because its the only format my (Manly challenged) 360 will understand.

Gotcha...

You'd think of all people Microsoft would support their own system...


Yeah, in there though you'll see options for the format type.

Yea.

I only see NTFS and exFAT? I don't think exFAT is the same because I went to plug it in after reformatting it to exFAT and it didn't work.

[Krandall]

 


REally.

Okay, does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

You can do it through a DOS command prompt window as well.

[Krandall]

the command would look like this...

the % meaning the drive letter

format %: /FS:FAT32

[kyledvor61]

haha you said fat

[Krandall]

It's an acronym.. 

File Allocation Table

[Jester2893]

REally.

Okay, does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

You can do it through a DOS command prompt window as well.

Yea the letter is F: "Media Drive'


No I defiantly don't see that. I remember reading in anything newer then windows 2000 you can format a drive bigger then 32gb into FAT32. Thats why I thought I needed a converter.

[Jester2893]

Um also I have another problem. :grin_nod: I went to some program installed on windows and I right clicked on the drive, and I hit delete partition, because I thought if I deleted it would let me make another one, but now my drive doesn't show up on my computer?


:'(

[Krandall]

If you do the "Right click "my computer"" and select manage. Go to the disk management section, you should see in the graph there an un-alocated section of media.. You can format any size drive in winxp w/ the FAT system.

[Jester2893]

If you do the "Right click "my computer"" and select manage. Go to the disk management section, you should see in the graph there an un-alocated section of media.. You can format any size drive in winxp w/ the FAT system.

Yea I see it in there, but how do I format it through that? Theres no options? 

[Jester2893]

I got it. You can't format a drive bigger then 32gb because when I got to format only 28gb worth of the drive the FAT32 shows up. I will do that then, thanks for your help! 


EDIT: But now I have 31gb on FAT 32, how do I get into the rest of the drive? I know you can't store bigger then 4gb for a single file, so I would like to put bigger things on the other side, but how do I get into it?

[Krandall]

If you do the "Right click "my computer"" and select manage. Go to the disk management section, you should see in the graph there an un-alocated section of media.. You can format any size drive in winxp w/ the FAT system.

Yea I see it in there, but how do I format it through that? Theres no options? 

You should be able to right click on that section (in the graph thing) and format from there.