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Format HD to FAT32

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RonB

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Got a new hd the other day and ghosted it when I got home because I wanted to see how much I really got when set up with XP. Got 233 Gigs by the way. Anyway, now I would like to format the hd and just leave it blank. A friend of mine, who uses macs, has about 200 gigs of music that he has collected and told me that if I can format the hd with FAT32 he can transfer the music to the new hd and I can have it. Cool .....

Anyway, I have a MS start up disk for Win 98SE and was wondering if I could use that to format the drive into FAT32? If anyone has a faster better way to do this, please let me know.

Right now it is using NTFS. Just want to give it to my friend the way he wants and then enjoy all that music. Plan on burning it all to disk and then using the hd for for my main drive.

Thanks.
 
I think you can use FDISK (it should be in the startup disk) to format it to FAT32, though I'm not sure it has support for such a large hard drive. I may be wrong though.
 
The FAT32 filesystem has support for 2terabytes. Though your operating system or bios may not be able to support this.


Came from my Maxtor 40gb box ^
 
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