- can USB disk be reformatted to FAT32?
- Posted by Anonymous Sender on May 16th, 2008
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...
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- Posted by Rod Speed on May 16th, 2008
Anonymous Sender <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote
Yes.
Nope, ME should do that fine.
- Posted by Arno Wagner on May 16th, 2008
Previously Anonymous Sender <anonymous@remailer.metacolo.com> wrote:
Just use the standard partitioning and formatting tools.
Althoug Win ME is both outdated and unusable trash...
Arno
- Posted by mscotgrove@aol.com on May 16th, 2008
On May 16, 3:08*am, Arno Wagner <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
I've used fat32format.exe downloaded free from the web
Michael
- Posted by Squeeze on May 16th, 2008
mscotgrove@aol.com wrote in news:8dff5057-ba05-4706-842d-91fa305ab908@x35g2000hsb.googlegroups.com
What's wrong with using ME internal format.
- Posted by mscotgrove@aol.com on May 17th, 2008
On May 16, 10:29*pm, "Squeeze" <rubberd...@duckies.au> wrote:
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
- Posted by Mike Ruskai on May 17th, 2008
On or about Sat, 17 May 2008 00:52:23 -0700 (PDT) did "mscotgrove@aol.com"
<mscotgrove@aol.com> 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 >32GB, which means
it's just another case of MS trying out social engineering.
- Posted by Arno Wagner on May 17th, 2008
Previously Mike Ruskai <BUTthannydI@dontearthlinklike.netspam> wrote:
Pretty stupid, but what eles can you expect from MS. I typically
format large FAT32s under Linux, which also works fine.
Arno
- Posted by Justin on May 19th, 2008
Anonymous Sender wrote:
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.
- Posted by Squeeze on May 20th, 2008
Arno Wagner wrote in news:698093F31eclsU1@mid.individual.net
Such blasphemy.
What. It's not bugged?
Something that works. How surprizing.
