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Anyone know of a good formatting tool for 1TB external harddrive?
MY mate got himself a 1TB external desktop hardrive (Seagate Freeagent Pro if that helps)
It's currently in NTFS, and he need's it in Fat32 cos currently it'll only work in his laptop which makes it a bit useless to him.
Ive used CompuApp's Swiss Knife normally, but this only gives the option to format it in NTFS. I've been able to format external hardrives before(largest was 250GB) to Fat32 with this program so is it something to do with it being 1TB? if so does anyone know of a way to format a 1TB drive to Fat32?
Our only current plan is if it's the size of the drive we we're gonna partition it first, but don't know if this is a good idea on external drives. Also will 360's n PS3's see partitioned drives?
5 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavourite answer
You can format Fat32 in windows xp professional using disk management facility.
However my preference would be to use gnome partitioner Gparted.. For those that don't like linux theres a stand alone cd that just autoruns.. If you are simply partitioning in FAT32 this will do the job with ease. I can't see why 360's etc won't pick up partitions if they can read FAT32 file systems then they should detect partitions fine.
Oh and yes FAT32 has a maximum logical drive size associated I believe it to be 2TB although above 32GB its storage becomes inefficient due to the larger cluster size required. Unfortunately microsoft hold NTFS as proprietary therefore we are stuck with FAT32 to ensure compatability.
Source(s): http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php - tuaamin13Lv 61 decade ago
PS3 will see a FAT32 partition.
What you may have to do is split the drive into multiple partitions. Make half (or 250GB, or 2 250GB partitions) into FAT32. Leave the rest NTFS. This is because FAT32 does not allow files >4GB, but NTFS does. You'll still be able to keep everything on the drive, but the PS3 will only see one half, while your computer sees both halves.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Magic Partition
- ?Lv 45 years ago
Wow, you're top. Fat32 does not help record sizes of 4GB or greater and the Xbox 360 does not help NTFS. it incredibly is particularly stupid! i think of the only different selection is to attach your exterior force to a computing gadget and flow the media to the Xbox over the community. no longer perfect, i be conscious of. Sorry, guy. That sucks.