Please help formating a 1Tb disk to Fat32 is driving me crazy

[mycarsavw]

Come on, give the guy some credit. I'm sure he knew that!

Hopefully, if not he's just formatted a random network drive by mistake

[rigsyb1208]

Dont give me too much credit, but I have not done anything disasterous yet!
I will need to format a small partition on the disk then in order to have a drive letter for formatting?

[alsenior]

i assume you haven't used diskpart?

open command prompt with admin rights
run 'diskpart' with no quotes
then

list disk (find the disk which is the one you want)
select disk 0 (where 0 is the number of the drive you want)
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit

That should allow you to format the whole disk

[rigsyb1208]

Hi just tried the diskpart route, everything worked great right up to the format fs=fat32 command, which didnt work. There doesnt seem to be a format command in diskpart!

Help!!!!!!!!!

[rigsyb1208]

....And I just tried the disk management route, when I enter the format option there is no Fat32 option, only NTFS. Excuse me while I go to the roof.....and jump!

[CaptainCrash]

I've always used FAT32format on the rare occasions I've needed to create a fat32 volume of >32GB.

Quick, simple and does what it says on the tin.

[rigsyb1208]

Just downloaded fat32format and the exe wont start correctly...................

[CaptainCrash]

Just downloaded fat32format and the exe wont start correctly...................

What do you mean, "won't start correctly"? Are you running it in a command prompt as admin?

[Unique]

....And I just tried the disk management route, when I enter the format option there is no Fat32 option, only NTFS. Excuse me while I go to the roof.....and jump!

delete the partion(s) first, then create a new partion formatted as fat32. simples

[directhex]

Tools built into XP and above are artificially limited so you cannot create a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GiB.

That's why you're not seeing options you want in menus and things

[Singh400]

....And I just tried the disk management route, when I enter the format option there is no Fat32 option, only NTFS. Excuse me while I go to the roof.....and jump!

Did you try what I said with the command line cmd FORMAT? Uni makes a good point in saying just delete your partition and re-create it. It'll need formatting then, and then just format it to FAT32.

[CaptainCrash]

Did you try what I said with the command line cmd FORMAT? Uni makes a good point in saying just delete your partition and re-create it. It'll need formatting then, and then just format it to FAT32.

The Windows format.exe still won't play ball - if you run the command "format x: /FS:FAT32" on a volume bigger than 32GB, it will throw a strop and say ""The volume is too big for FAT32."

I don't know where the OP's gone, or if he managed to get anywhere with fat32format.exe, but I've just tried it with a 320GB external drive to check its compatability with Windows 7 (x64), and it worked perfectly (took less than a second).

[alsenior]

no its just that it wont format a volume of more that 32GB in size. are there any other formats that the ps3 can read?

[alsenior]

you could try and format with vfat and see if supports that.

[holy god of nil]

I don't know where the OP's gone

He's just formatted his OS on partition X (it's a cool letter) into fat32

On a more serious note, just found this on the interwebs: 'The 360 will not recognise NTFS formatted drives or Fat32 formatted drives using the built in windows disk management.' The article in question used swissknife but that isn't much help to you as you've already tried it.

[nightkhaos]

He's just formatted his OS on partition X (it's a cool letter) into fat32

On a more serious note, just found this on the interwebs: 'The 360 will not recognise NTFS formatted drives or Fat32 formatted drives using the built in windows disk management.' The article in question used swissknife but that isn't much help to you as you've already tried it.

That's alright because he has a PS3.