Replying: How To Format A Hard Drive To FAT32 In Windows 7 or Vista (or in general)

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Re: How To Format A Hard Drive To FAT32 In Windows 7 or ...

I just did the same thing; I wanted to format a 500GB external USB drive to Fat32 in Windows 7, attempted DOS formatting and it started out fine, started formatting etc., but then I woke up the next day and it ended up showing me the 'volume is too big for fat32' notice, and didn't end up formatting it. So I tried the SwissKnife app (in Win7). It said right away that there were compatibility problems with it in Win7, but not one to heed warnings, I went ahead and looked anyway, and it doesn't show the drives. So I went ahead with Acronis Disk Director and it worked perfect.

It literally took about 5 seconds to format 500GB to Fat32, with no complaints. It didn't do a low-level format, and/or overwriting multiple time format, if anyone is worried about the FBI finding their tax documents, or naked pictures of <insert name here>, but for your standard formatting it worked a charm.

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