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Windows format

Discussion in 'Software' started by CatKing, 20 May 2003.

  1. CatKing

    CatKing What's a Dremel?

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    hi all,

    i cant format my hd while typing format c: in dos. it said it is not available in this format. how can i format it to fa32.

    please help thanks
     
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  2. andyunder

    andyunder What's a Dremel?

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    have you fdisked it first?
     
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  3. pranks7er

    pranks7er mange tout

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    is your drive set to ntfs ?
     
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  4. Nigel

    Nigel What's a Dremel?

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    I wouldn't try from DOS, unless as Andyunder says you've fdisk'ed from a boot floppy.

    A good way to convert to Fat32 is to use Partition Magic to do the job. I'm also sure older versions of Windows came with a little utility to do the job too.
     
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  5. Sc0rian

    Sc0rian Here comes the farmer

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    I come to this problem alot....

    What you should do is get a mate or get another hard drive build it on xp or 2000 as the support ntfs then plug the other hard drive as a slave then go to my computer format then to a quick format job done!!
    Thats what I all the time never let me down;)

    Ben
     
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