can USB disk be reformatted to FAT32?

[Anonymous Sender]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
Yes.

I presume that I may need a third-party program to do this...

Nope, ME should do that fine.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]

Just use the standard partitioning and formatting tools.
Althoug Win ME is both outdated and unusable trash...

Arno

 

[mscotgrove]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]

Just use the standard partitioning and formatting tools.
Althoug Win ME is both outdated and unusable trash...

Arno

I've used fat32format.exe downloaded free from the web

Michael

 

[Squeeze]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]

Just use the standard partitioning and formatting tools.
Althoug Win ME is both outdated and unusable trash...

Arno

I've used fat32format.exe downloaded free from the web

What's wrong with using ME internal format.

 

[mscotgrove]

(e-mail address removed) wrote in

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]
Just use the standard partitioning and formatting tools.
Althoug Win ME is both outdated and unusable trash...
Arno

I've used    fat32format.exe   downloaded free from the web

What's wrong with using ME internal format.

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In this case ME will probably format as a FAT32, but if anyone tries
with XP or 2000, then there is a maximum size after which it refuses
to reformat as FAT32. This is when an external program is required to
convert a large NTFS drive to FAT32.

Michael

 

[Mike Ruskai]

In this case ME will probably format as a FAT32, but if anyone tries
with XP or 2000, then there is a maximum size after which it refuses
to reformat as FAT32. This is when an external program is required to
convert a large NTFS drive to FAT32.

It's 32GB, FYI. Anything larger, and 2K/XP forces you to use NTFS. Both are,
of course, quite capable of using an existing FAT32 drive >32GB, which means
it's just another case of MS trying out social engineering.

 

[Arno Wagner]

On or about Sat, 17 May 2008 00:52:23 -0700 (PDT) did "(e-mail address removed)"
<[email protected]> dribble thusly:

It's 32GB, FYI. Anything larger, and 2K/XP forces you to use NTFS.
Both are, of course, quite capable of using an existing FAT32 drive
engineering.

Pretty stupid, but what eles can you expect from MS. I typically
format large FAT32s under Linux, which also works fine.

Arno

 

[Justin]

I have a USB disk of 60 GB.
According to the terse little pamphlet in the box,
it is formatted NTFS and won't work on a Mac
unless formatted by a Mac.
Now I am curious: can I reformat it to FAT32,
so that I can use it with Windows ME?
I presume that I may need a third-party
program to do this...
[]

I always thought OSX can read/write NTFS...


Remember with fat32 the maximum file size is 4GB.
That's probably OK with you, but sometimes I transfer video files and I
ran into that problem.
Then I ran into the problem of file permissions on the NTFS formatted key.

 

[Squeeze]

Arno Wagner wrote in news:[email protected]

Pretty stupid, but what eles can you expect from MS.

I typically format large FAT32s under Linux,

Such blasphemy.

which also works fine.

What. It's not bugged?
Something that works. How surprizing.