How to make seagate goflex ultra portable HDD Fat32 ?

[crazy.wingman]

Hello ppl

I have brought seagate goflex 500 GB Ex.HDD i need to format it to fat32 file system so my sony bravia TV can detect it.

Which software n what method i shud use ?

 

[anikhtos]

do you have a win98 cd???
that will allow you to format to fat32
i do not know from when exacly microsoft decided to remove fat32 as formating option limiting it to 32gb!?!?!?!? maybe a windows2000 install cd will allow you to format fat32

 

[Old Hippie]

How about this handy-dandy Sony Bravia TV Fat32 Formatter? 🙂

Good Luck!

 

[Dahak]

Really any 3rd part partitioning utility should work
like this http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm free or http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php free

Just the built in utilities in windows will now allow you to do it

 

[Old Hippie]

Really any 3rd part partitioning utility should work
like this http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm free or http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php free

Just the built in utilities in windows will now allow you to do it

Yep.

The OP has failed Google 101. 🙂

 

[Golgatha]

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml

Works just fine for me. I format a partition on a USB 2.0, 2.5in external drive for backing up my PS3 data.

 

[imagoon]

command line:

format X: /FS:FAT32 where x: = drive letter.

EDIT NM saw it was 500GB and is over 32GB.