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Creating & Formatting FAT32 Partition in WinXP

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Wyck

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Just got a 160gb USB hard disk and am going to be installing it tomorrow morning for a customer w/ Windows 98. I need to have it formatted in FAT32 by then, but all I've got at the home office is Windows XP - Right off the bat, Disk Management doesn't seem to allow anything other than NTFS... I do have a Win98 boot disk but I don't believe it will see the USB drive to format it. Can I get a a 3rd party utility to let me do it real quick? If so, which one? I'd rather not buy anything... Thanks!
 
It only came with a USB 2.0 driver disk for Win9X, which isn't the issue. The instructions only say how to format it as NTFS on XP or FAT32 on Win9X. I need FAT32 on XP. 🙁
 
XP should format as FAT32 with no problem. It does that by default anyway - you have to actually convert to NTFS.
 
I don't think this will be possible to format under xp due to M$ only wanting you to use ntfs for drives/partitions larger than 32gb


Can you try to use a bootdisk off bootdisk.com or perhaps find a friend with a copy of partition magic and borrow it?

 
Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP will not allow you to format partitions larger than 32GB as FAT32. They force you to use NTFS.

If you want a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB, you will need to format with Win98SE with the 64GB+ FDisk patch, or WinME.
 
Your biggest "problem" is the usb support, but if you could pull it from the enclosure, connect to your computer, use a 9x boot disk for partition/format and then put it back in the enclosure you would be fine.

the partition magic demo may support it, and get what you need done without opening the enclosure.
 
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