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October 7th 07, 04:15 PM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for
downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Kind Regards Zachary 
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October 7th 07, 04:35 PM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
Zachary Hunt wrote:
I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Back up any data on the drive and either use Disk Management to reformat it while it is attached to the computer or use the drive mftr.'s software to format it. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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October 7th 07, 05:34 PM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
Thank you Malke for your advice, the problem is my computer only has the NTFS
option to format through the disk management and the drive didn't come with any software. I have contacted the manufacture but no reply over the weekend. Kind Regards Zachary "Malke" wrote: Zachary Hunt wrote: I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Back up any data on the drive and either use Disk Management to reformat it while it is attached to the computer or use the drive mftr.'s software to format it. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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October 7th 07, 07:48 PM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
You should be able to format the card in your camera.
"Zachary Hunt" wrote in message ... Thank you Malke for your advice, the problem is my computer only has the NTFS option to format through the disk management and the drive didn't come with any software. I have contacted the manufacture but no reply over the weekend. Kind Regards Zachary "Malke" wrote: Zachary Hunt wrote: I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Back up any data on the drive and either use Disk Management to reformat it while it is attached to the computer or use the drive mftr.'s software to format it. Malke -- Elephant Boy Computers www.elephantboycomputers.com "Don't Panic!" MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
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October 8th 07, 04:36 AM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
Zachary Hunt wrote: I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Kind Regards Zachary Am I correct ing assuming your external drive is larger than ~30Gb? Vista and XP will only permit FAT32 formatting of drives that are around 30Gb or less. If you can get access to a Windows 98 machine then format the drive with that. If you do not have access to a Win98 box then :- 1. Remove the drive from the enclosure 2. Turn off your computer 3. Totally disconnect your computer's HDD/s (This is for safeties sake to stop you from formatting your machines drives by mistake) 4. Connect the HDD from the enclosure to your motherboard and power supply 5. Obtain a Win98 boot floppy ( http://www.bootdisk.com ) 6. Boot your computer from the floppy disk 7.Run FDISK and delete the partion 8. Reboot from the floppy 9. Format the HDD with the FORMAT command 10. Turn off the machine 11. Remove the HDD and replace it in the enclosure 12. Reconnect your internal HDDs 13 Do not lend the external drive to your "Friend"
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October 8th 07, 08:24 AM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
Hi Greenie,
Thank you win98 did it, I have taken note of step 13 and embedded it to memory. Kind Regards Zachary "GreenieLeBrun" wrote: Zachary Hunt wrote: I have a portable hard drive that has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Kind Regards Zachary Am I correct ing assuming your external drive is larger than ~30Gb? Vista and XP will only permit FAT32 formatting of drives that are around 30Gb or less. If you can get access to a Windows 98 machine then format the drive with that. If you do not have access to a Win98 box then :- 1. Remove the drive from the enclosure 2. Turn off your computer 3. Totally disconnect your computer's HDD/s (This is for safeties sake to stop you from formatting your machines drives by mistake) 4. Connect the HDD from the enclosure to your motherboard and power supply 5. Obtain a Win98 boot floppy ( http://www.bootdisk.com ) 6. Boot your computer from the floppy disk 7.Run FDISK and delete the partion 8. Reboot from the floppy 9. Format the HDD with the FORMAT command 10. Turn off the machine 11. Remove the HDD and replace it in the enclosure 12. Reconnect your internal HDDs 13 Do not lend the external drive to your "Friend"
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October 12th 07, 03:18 AM
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NTFS to FAT32 Formatting
On Oct 8, 1:24 am, Zachary Hunt
wrote: Hi Greenie, Thank you win98 did it, I have taken note of step 13 and embedded it to memory. Kind Regards Zachary "GreenieLeBrun" wrote: Zachary Hunt wrote: I have aportableharddrivethat has a card reader attached also, it is for downloading my mCF cards form my camera and should be formatted to FAT32. A friend borrewed it andformatted it to NTFS and i can't seem to find how to reformat it to FAT32. Any sugestions greatfully recieved. Kind Regards Zachary Am I correct ing assuming your externaldriveis larger than ~30Gb? Vista and XP will only permit FAT32 formatting of drives that are around 30Gb or less. If you can get access to a Windows 98 machine thenformatthedrivewith that. If you do not have access to a Win98 box then :- 1. Remove thedrivefrom the enclosure 2. Turn off your computer 3. Totally disconnect your computer's HDD/s (This is for safeties sake to stop you from formatting your machines drives by mistake) 4. Connect the HDD from the enclosure to your motherboard and power supply 5. Obtain a Win98 boot floppy (http://www.bootdisk.com) 6. Boot your computer from the floppy disk 7.Run FDISK and delete the partion 8. Reboot from the floppy 9.Formatthe HDD with theFORMATcommand 10. Turn off the machine 11. Remove the HDD and replace it in the enclosure 12. Reconnect your internal HDDs 13 Do not lend the externaldriveto your "Friend"- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - To format Western Digital portable drives in FAT32, they have a great free utility that does it for you http://support.wdc.com/download/external/ExtFat32.zip. Don S.
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