formatting issues

[dalin80]

i have a 80gb western digital hard drive currently in fat32 format, i want to format it as its been playing up (saying its full when it isn't..). but the windows formant tool is only showing a ntfs option.

any ideas? i want to keep it in fat32 as supposedly that's what my ps3 reads.

 

[manjuice]

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

?

 

[enigmo]

You can also use a Linux-based environment or even a Mac to format it as FAT. Download a Knoppix boot CD if you need it and you should be able to do it from there without affecting your current boot HD.
There is no technical reason why an 80GB drive cannot be FAT format, it's just not a very efficient filesystem so MS have put a limit of 34GB (I think it is) on FAT32 formats.

 

[swinnie]

Couldn't you use a boot disk?

And I think it is 36Gb that MS have the limit on.