external hard drive formatting

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spudulike

hello

I've got an external hard-drive, and need help to format it
as a dos drive. Any ideas as to how to go about this. It's
connected by firewire and I'm running XP. Thanks
 
Do you mean that you need to have FAT32 support in order to run DOS based apps in a stand alone environment: or just want to install DOS apps in Windows XP

EIther way, FAT32 has size limitations, so you will need to partition the drive to smaller partitions [for FAT32} as well as format, needed for both FAT32 or NTFS

To initialize new disks
Open Computer Management (Local).
In the console tree, click Disk Management

Star
Control Pane
Administrative Tool
Computer Management (Local
Storag
Disk Managemen

Right-click the disk you want to initialize, and then click Initialize Disk.
In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize.
The disk is initialized as a basic disk
Follow the prompts to set size, FOrmat Type etc
 
the drive I'm using is just for back-up storage. I've
tried using computer management/disk management but when I
right click on the drive it doesn't give me the format
option. Any thoughts. thanks
-----Original Message-----
Do you mean that you need to have FAT32 support in order
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to run DOS based apps in a stand alone environment: or just
want to install DOS apps in Windows XP?
EIther way, FAT32 has size limitations, so you will need
Click to expand...
to partition the drive to smaller partitions [for FAT32} as
well as format, needed for both FAT32 or NTFS.
 
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