Re: How do you format in Fat32?

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"Ian D" <taurus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, devmyster.

hp has a nice little tool that worked well for me.
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

Oh, so you were using a utility from a third party, "hp"; I suppose
that means Hewlett Packard?

WinXP still does not include such ability, so far as I know, even in
SP3. Win98 always had the native ability to format partitions as
large as about 128 GB as FAT32. Several other operating systems also
could do this.

Let's see...I haven't had to refer to the documentation in a couple
of years, and the online references have changed. Ah, yes, here it
is:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc766145.aspx

A partial quote from that page, but it does not specifically mention
WinXP:
"In Windows Vista, you can format a FAT32 volume only up to 32 GB."

If you find a copy of WinXP with the NATIVE ability to format a
volume larger than 32 GB as FAT32, please post back.

RC
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"devmyster" <devmyster.3o4mrb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi with win xp i had no problem going into my computer and using the
windows format utility my drive was 40gb i was using sp2 xp pro and
was
able to use fat,ntfs,fat32 with vista i had to get a third party
program
to format my drive hp has a nice little tool that worked well for
me.
http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

It's called hp usb disk storage format tool and will format your
external to fat 32 no matter the size.


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devmyster


MS has recently released a replacement for FAT32 that allows
XP to format partitions larger than 32GB. It's called exFAT, and
is fully compatible with FAT32. ExFAT partitions can be read by
all Windows from Win 95 to Win 7.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955704/

According to the article, only Windows Vista, Windows XP and Windows CE
can read exFAT, and XP only can if you install the driver they just
released. I also don't see where the article says it is fully
compatible with FAT32. Can you provide additional sources for these two
assertions?

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