trackrat Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 A friend at work has asked me to format a hard drive he has been given so he can use it as a spare drive for his computer.He has 98SE and I use XP, my filesystem is NTFS but he needs it formatted in FAT 32 and their is no option to do this. Is their any way around this, can I download a program to do this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 The easiest would be for him to format the drive in his own machine. Isn't this possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 trackrattell your friend to put the drive in his machine, set it to slave then format it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 If it is over 32 gigabytes then you can not format it with fat32 from within Windows XP or 2000. It would have to be done with a 98 boot floppy.If it is below 32 gigs then you can do it with the XP/2000 disk management utility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted June 27, 2004 Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 I don't see any point in formatting from XP or W2K. W98 is available and it is easier to format from a machine with this already installed than mess about with a WXP setup.All that has to be done is as madboy states. Easy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackrat Posted June 27, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2004 Thanks too you all for your advice I will get him to format it on his own machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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