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    Formatting a Harddrive as FAT32

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Bwen, Feb 19, 2008.

  1. Bwen

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    Hello,

    I have an external Harddrive and it's currently formatted as NTFS but seeing that I have Mac OS X and Windows XP computers I am wanting to format my harddrive as FAT32. I am not very good with computers and I was wondering how do I do this? I tried going through Disk Utilities on WinXP and chose format but can only choose NTFS.

    It's a 160GB 2.5" Maxtor One Touch Mini if that helps.

    Thanks.
     
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    Try using a program called gnome partition editor. Download the ISO image and burn it to CD, then choose boot from CD when your computer starts up. You may need to get everything off the Hard drive first.

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    You can use OS Xs Disk Utility to format your external to FAT32. Do note that such a format will erase all the data on the external. If you want to keep your data without backing it up, you will have to use a program such as Norton PartitionMagic. I'm not sure if Gparted can do the same.
     
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