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    Formatting as FAT32 in Vista

    OK how the heck do you do it, trying to format my external hard drive as FAT32, but it only gives me NTFS or exFAT.

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    Re: Formatting as FAT32 in Vista

    Fat32 really isn't very good for anything but memory cards!

    http://padraic2112.wordpress.com/200...t1632-support/
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    Re: Formatting as FAT32 in Vista

    Download a DOS boot disk image! (I had toprepare a DOS boot disk a few weeks ago - it was so long since I had to do that, I found it easier to download an image and bit copy it onto qa floppy!)

    Otherwise you can do it with a Linux Live CD with the mkfs command.
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    Re: Formatting as FAT32 in Vista

    Ohh I wonder if I can do it with my Virtualbox with Ubuntu. I'll give it a shot ...

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    Re: Formatting as FAT32 in Vista

    from the command prompt

    "Format a: /FS:FAT32"

    Replace a: with your drive. There is a 32gig limit hardcoded into Vista for formatting FAT32 though. To overcome it you need other programs / tools.

    If you can download http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ind...at32format.htm and use that for anything above 32gig. Nice and easy to use too
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