Weird Formatting Issue

[d4mo]

I have a 320GB external HDD that I'm trying to partition(just 1 big) and format with FAT32. Here is the weird thing:

I partition it, and set the partition type to c (FAT32 LBA). I then write the table. If I then do an fdisk -l it still shows that the drive is NTFS. If I go back into Fdisk and print the partition table everything is still ok in there.

Then I do a mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda1. It goes through the formatting. But then if I go into Fdisk and print the table it's empty. Whats going on?

 

[Nothinman]

Are you running fdisk on /dev/sda or /dev/sda1? I'm pretty sure it won't bitch about you doing the latter and will put a partition table there which will get overwritten by your mkfs.