I formatted a 1TB hard drive to FAT32 with no problem, but this 500gb is being a pain.
Help formatting NTFS to FAT32
Started by Chopped, Apr 22 2012 04:35 AM
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#1
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:35 AM
I formatted a 1TB hard drive to FAT32 with no problem, but this 500gb is being a pain.
#2
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:39 AM
I don't know much about formatting but I tried formatting on mac using disk utility and it doesn't really work. When I formatted my HD for exFat it worked perfectly by formatting it on windows 7 by going to properties.
#3
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:44 AM
Could you read and write on the mac?
#4
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:48 AM
Yeah, I think fat32 lets you read and write on mac but not files over 4gb. exFat allows you to deal with files over 4gb on both mac and pc but I think it's just the newer more recent versions of operating systems. I formatted exfat on disk utility but it claims to have done it but didn't. Use the formatting option on windows 7, although I don't know if you have to untick quick format. I did and it took a whole day to format my 1tb HD. Maybe you could do it without ticking that, not sure.
#5
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:50 AM
Just formated to exFAT going to try to see if I can write to it once my friend gets back. Thanks. I am still not sure why I couldn't format it to FAT32.
#6
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:51 AM
Yeah that's weird, Did you use disk utility on mac?
#7
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:54 AM
No I am not familiar with the mac OS, and don't really plan on learning it. I'll just have to wait a couple hours until he gets back, and see what happens. I will post the results in case somebody else has the same problems. Not really sure why they would though.
#8
Posted 22 April 2012 - 04:57 AM
Ah I see, if it doesn't work for you, try unticking quick format. Worked for me but yeah good luck!
#9
Posted 22 April 2012 - 06:11 AM
Download gparted, burn a live-cd, boot into the cd and then format the drive into fat.
#10
Posted 22 April 2012 - 07:01 AM
Thanks Cyo, cant really download my net where I am is slow as shit. I got it though, I just fooled around in the Mac and figured it out.
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