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Thread: Formatting a Harddrive as Fat32 |
    
Bronze Member Username: Mati
Post Number: 33
Registered: Apr-08
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| Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 10:52 pm: |
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Cananyone assist me in trying to format aHarddrive in dos format?FAT32 to NTFS i tried using a windows XP3
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Eugene |
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Gold Member Username: Plymouth
Canada
Post Number: 6543
Registered: Jan-08
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| Posted on Friday, December 19, 2008 - 11:22 pm: |
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Yugene
Use this freeware for it, i had do some surch and this is one of best
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
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Gold Member Username: Doreenakadj
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 2293
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 08:58 am: |
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are you trying to load Windows Xp sp3 onto the hard drive or just convert the Fat32 to NTFS? |
Gold Member Username: Doreenakadj
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 2294
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 09:06 am: |
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How to convert a FAT volume or a FAT32 volume to NTFS
Note Although the chance of corruption or data loss during the conversion is minimal, we recommend that you perform a backup of the data on the volume that you want to convert before you start the conversion.
To convert an existing FAT or FAT32 volume to NTFS, follow these steps:
Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.
At the command prompt, type the following, where drive letter is the drive that you want to convert:
convert drive letter: /fs:ntfs
For example, type the following command to convert drive E to NTFS:
convert e: /fs:ntfs
Note If the operating system is on the drive that you are converting, you will be prompted to schedule the task when you restart the computer because the conversion cannot be completed while the operating system is running. When you are prompted, click YES.
When you receive the following message at the command prompt, type the volume label of the drive that you are converting, and then press ENTER:
The type of the file system is FAT.
Enter the current volume label for drive drive letter
When the conversion to NTFS is complete, you receive the following message at the command prompt:
Conversion complete
Quit the command prompt.
Here is the link incase things don't go well you can read the trouble shooting info
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881 |
Gold Member Username: Doreenakadj
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 2295
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 09:09 am: |
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if you have anymore questions regarding installing window xp or Vista just pm me and i can assit you in any way.
I hope this helps |
Gold Member Username: Plymouth
Canada
Post Number: 6548
Registered: Jan-08
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| Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 11:01 am: |
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Doreen i think yugene want convert NTFS in Fat32 for his receiver.
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Gold Member Username: Doreenakadj
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 2297
Registered: Dec-06
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| Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 02:28 pm: |
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HUH? |
Silver Member Username: Ajdarwin
Post Number: 279
Registered: May-06
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| Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 09:40 am: |
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Some of the DVRs use Fat32 as the file system for recording movies. That being the case it may be necessary to format the hard drive before installing it. I have a DVR which uses Fat32, but it will format the hard drive on it's own. You can boot up your computer with a Win98 or WinMe boot disk and format the hard drive that way. I tried this when I increased the hard drive size from 80 gig to 300 gig. It worked fine, but my hardware (DVR) is hacked to accomodate the change in hard drive size. |
Gold Member Username: The_coders
Post Number: 1628
Registered: Jan-08
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| Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 01:12 pm: |
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Or do it the ez way - "Partition Magic" , windows can only format fat32 up to 32gig. Here's a link for free partition magic:
http://www.mininova.org/tor/772360 |
Gold Member Username: Plymouth
Canada
Post Number: 6573
Registered: Jan-08
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| Posted on Sunday, December 21, 2008 - 01:44 pm: |
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The Coders sometimes Partition Magic not work that why i give SwissKnife.
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
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