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Formating Question

  • 17-05-2009 7:37pm
    #1
    djgregg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭


    I know there is a very simple answer to this but i cant find it!
    Here goes:
    I have a external hard drive and it needs to be formated into FAT, from what i can see its currently in NTFS,(i think)!!.
    How do i re format it to FAT?
    I tried properties~format ~dropdown menu ,but there is no choice of formats to choose from??
    AS i said i know i missing something here very obvious , but im fecked if i can see what it is.
    its 320 gig hard hard drive
    Any help would be great.


Comments

  • #2
    Lazarus2.0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,772 ✭✭✭Lazarus2.0


    Certainly Windows XP wont format a drive of that capacity to FAT . I'm not sure if that's true of Vista .

    Swiss Knife does the job though ...


  • #3
    cmo
    Registered Users Posts: 59 ✭✭cmo


    from the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table

    "Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program included in Windows 2000 and higher can only create FAT32 file systems of 32 GB or less. This limitation is by design and according to Microsoft was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient.[14][19] This limitation can be bypassed by using third-party formatting utilities.[20]

    The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte (232−1 bytes). Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another formatting type such as NTFS. Until mid-2006, those who run dual boot systems or who move external data drives between computers with different operating systems had little choice but to stick with FAT32. Since then, full support for NTFS has become available in Linux and many other operating systems, by installing the FUSE library (on Linux) together with the NTFS-3G driver. Data exchange is also possible between Windows and Linux by using the Linux-native ext2 or ext3 file systems through the use of external drivers for Windows, such as ext2 IFS; however, Windows cannot boot from ext2 or ext3 partitions."


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