FAT32

AHarvey · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:21

I've partitioned a 1tb hdd in half and I need to format one as fat32.

Problem is, Windows 7 only allows exFAT and NTFS, neither of which are read from a 360.

Any suggestions on how to sort it?

twist3d0n3 · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:22

if you have (or know someone with) a mac you can do it on them...

there's probably some software out there, so might be worth a look on google

manbearpig · 5 Jan 2011 at 18:24

Here.

JonJ678 · 5 Jan 2011 at 22:19

Booting from a gparted cd is the easiest solution.

BlackAle · 5 Jan 2011 at 22:37

You can format it from within windows, from the command prompt... FORMAT <drive> /FS:FAT32

AHarvey · 6 Jan 2011 at 08:20

manbearpig said:
Here.

Thanks, worked a treat.

JonJ678 said:
Booting from a gparted cd is the easiest solution.

After a bit of googling that would have been my next choice.

BlackAle said:
You can format it from within windows, from the command prompt... FORMAT <drive> /FS:FAT32

Works but lots of people reporting that it takes ages and can fail if over 32gb so I was looking for something else

bledd · 6 Jan 2011 at 10:02

Use this

http://partedmagic.com

It's a live boot cd with loads of tools on it, including some imaging and recovery tools, it has gparted partition editor on it too

It's super easy to use and only about 100mb

Download the ISO from here http://partedmagic.com/doku.php?id=downloads

Get the 'pmagic-5.8.iso' (at the time of writing)

Then use Imgburn to burn it, 'write image to disc' is the option you want

Now keep this in your pc and reboot, then boot from cd