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A 3.5" HDD formatting format
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:24 pm
by ambientscape
I just bought a desktop hard drive attached to a external casing. Before I started putting it in the enclosure, I formatted it with my desktop pc....but somehow it only have a NTFS format and the FAT32 is not available for this drive. Is this normal?? I've never came across with this kinda drive that doesn't have the FAT32 format.
Thanks
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:33 pm
by GomJabbar
There are probably various ways to do this, but doing a quick search I came up with the following: In XP Pro, go to Start > "Help and Support", type format in the search box then click on the arrow to the right. Choose "Format a dynamic volume", then choose "Using a command line". This tells you how to do it. Just open a command prompt (from Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt), then type in the command and press the enter key.