NTFS to FAT32?

Priapus · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:11

Howzit guys,

I've got a 250GB Hard drive that I need to be changed back to FAT32. Reason being is my Dvix player won't or rather, can't read the NTFS format.

I've tried formatting and reselecting the drive format, however only NTFS is there normally FAT32 is also there but for some reason it isn't now.

Any ideas guys?

Many thanks!

hp7909 · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:27

Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program included in Windows 2000 and higher can only create FAT32 file systems of 32 GB or less. This limitation is by design and was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient. This limitation can be bypassed when using the Windows command line Format utility or by using third-party formatting utilities.

Try formatting with Acronis Disk Director (or utility from HD manufacturer). If that doesn't work (on player), might be forced to partition.

Priapus · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:31

Hi,

Acronis Disk Director free at all?

Thank you.

hp7909 · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:34

Ice On Fire said:
Acronis Disk Director free at all?

Nope, but there's a demo on website.

BUT just edited my post above to include also HD manufacture utility software

Priapus · 27 Jan 2008 at 07:50

"might be forced to partition"

What do you mean by that?

Thanks.

dirtydog · 27 Jan 2008 at 08:06

He means make partitions of under 32GB so you can use FAT32 with them.

Priapus · 27 Jan 2008 at 08:31

Okay...:S

Well I've had FAT32 partions over 32GB...
Acronis Disk Director doesn't format to FAT32 either

Thebug · 27 Jan 2008 at 08:47

Could try this

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-personal/

Boah · 27 Jan 2008 at 11:48

Swissknife supports doing this and is free:

Supports FAT, FAT32 & NTFS systems

Allows creation of a single partition of up to 2048GB of FAT32 or NTFS file
systems.

bledd · 27 Jan 2008 at 11:57

use gparted, the live cd

will do it

copy the data to another drive first, to avoid data loss
it won't be able to hold files over 4gb in size

marc2003 · 27 Jan 2008 at 12:04

hp7909 said:
This limitation can be bypassed when using the Windows command line Format utility or by using third-party formatting utilities.

i'd just do this.

format /?

for options.

d.chatten · 27 Jan 2008 at 15:58

Try this, first run "Command Prompt" (cmd) and type the following in the command prompt window.

Type > diskpart > press enter

You must now select the disk and partition to format. example below.

Type > list disk > press enter
Type > select disk 1 > press enter < (replace the number 1 for the number of the disk you wish to format)
Type > list partition > press enter
Type > select partition 1 > press enter< (replace the number 1 for the number of the partition you wish to format)
Type > format fs=fat32 quick > press enter

Hope this helps!

Priapus · 28 Jan 2008 at 11:29

hanks guys, Will have a look at all of those.

Appericate the help as normal!

Priapus · 28 Jan 2008 at 13:14

d.chatten said:
Try this, first run "Command Prompt" (cmd) and type the following in the command prompt window.

Type > diskpart > press enter

You must now select the disk and partition to format. example below.

Type > list disk > press enter
Type > select disk 1 > press enter < (replace the number 1 for the number of the disk you wish to format)
Type > list partition > press enter
Type > select partition 1 > press enter< (replace the number 1 for the number of the partition you wish to format)
Type > format fs=fat32 quick > press enter

At the end of that I get an error saying, "Fat32 is not supported for the volume, please select a different file system and try again."

Hope this helps!