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

FAT32format throws a 'door open' error on Windows 7. Going to another download link on the Ridgecrop Consultants page results in it trying to download a pdf creator instead! Yet another con.

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

The best way to format bigger drives in FAT32 is with a free prograam of Ridgecorp consultants.
I takes only a few seconds to format a 750G GoFlex seagate disk
Super program.!!!!

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

I needed to format a drive for my son so he can use it on his PS3, the PS3 requires a drive formatted to FAT32. I used the command: format .FS/FAT32 X: on the drive, it is a 500GB. After waiting for it fo finish after about 6 hours it still came bask as NSFS???? How do I fix this so it will format it to fat32, this laptop (my old one) is Windows 7, my new one is Windows 8. I figure if Windows 7 won't do it, the WIndow 8 sure won't??? Any ideas??

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

Download the fat32format program. It works fabulous see also my post of the 9 th of this month.

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Hi MrWildone42!! if the fat32format program doesn't work be sure to give acronis Acronis Disk DirectorDisk Director a try, it has never failed me! I use it all the time for many things!

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

fat32format couldn't find my external drive to format... so I did another search and found that the easiest way to format a big drive to FAT32 is just to use a Mac... the Disk Utility program that comes standard on a Mac will use FAT32 if you specify "MSDOS" - and NOT ExFat. Takes seconds.

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

Fat32Format just took 5 seconds to format my weird Adata 500 GB on Win 7! very nice!

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

 After formating my WD My Passport 500GB to Fat32 with Acronis Acronis Disk DirectorDisk Director - my PS3 does not recognize it. Flash DriveFlash Drive - no problem, but exHDD - no.

Where is the problem? How to solve it?

 

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

 world class!!!! amazeballs !!!! i wanna just like you when i grow up !!

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

AMAZING !!!
Congratulations for your "no words" tutorial Smile
We can really live in a better world if we have more people like you, helping others with no change return.

T-H-A-N-K
YOU !!!

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