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The Free Specific Utility - Format FAT32 Drives beyond 32GB Limit. You can use it to format many types of external drives such as USB, Firewire, PCMIA, SATA, and SCSI. Formatting large hard drive in FAT32 is no longer a problem by using the features of 'Format Volume' and 'Convert to FAT32 Partition' in Macrorit Partition Expert. Download Free FAT32 Formatter Tool. When I inserted a Toshiba USB flash drive into Windows 10 computer and chose 'Format', I got the dialogue box as shown below. I learned that my Toshiba USB drive was allowed to format to NTFS, FAT32 (Default) and exFAT.

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The WD Quick Formatter is ONLY for external drives. Once the WD Quick Formatter is finished reformatting the drive, the drive will only have one partition. This is necessary in order to optimize the performance of the drive. The WD Quick Formatter is the recommended way to format WD external drives that use Advanced Format Drives (AFDs). The instructions in the articles below are designed to help users reformat and repartition an external drive. This process is Data Destructive and cannot be undone. Once the process begins, ALL THE DATA ON THE DRIVE WILL BE LOST! WD Quick Formatter will only format a single partition.

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WD Quick Formatter for Mac is not supported on macOS Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra. It's best to use Disk Utility. Please see Answer ID 8200: How to Partition and Format a WD Drive on Windows and macOS for more information.



2. When the application is started, the WD Quick Formatter's welcome screen will appear displaying the following warning message. After reading the warning, click Continue to move to the next screen.
   
3. Click on Accept to accept the End User License Agreement.
   
4. Next, the application will scan for WD external drives to be formatted.
   
5. Depending on the size of the drive and the Operating System (OS), one of two screens will appear. If the system is running Mac OSX, follow the instructions under the first choice below. If running Windows, however, follow the instructions based on the drive size:
   • When the scanning process comes to an end, there will be a drop down menu listing a WD external drive under Drive to format. This is the screen displayed when the drive is 2TB in size or less. Click on the drop down menu to view and/or select different external drives from the list, should there be additional drives connected to the system. When ready, click on Format Drive.
     
   • On a Windows system and if the drive is greater than 2TB, the screen below will be displayed. Decide if the drive is to be used with a computer running Windows XP. If it might be used on Windows XP, then select XP Compatible.If the drive is not to be used with Windows XP, then select Factory Default. Once this selection is made, click on the drop down menu to view and/or select different external drives from the list, should there be additional drives connected to the system. When ready, click on Format Drive.

     Important: XP Compatible configuration option is not available on Windows 8 and 10

     
     

   Important: If an error is received stating that the drive cannot be unmounted, this means that another application, service, or program is actively using the drive. Proceed to determine what is interacting with the drive and close that application or process prior to formatting the drive. Common programs that may be using the drive are automatic backup programs (such as WD SmartWare), anti-virus, file downloading applications (BitTorrent clients, FTP clients, etc.), and remote access applications. Do not disconnect power while the utility is running.

   
   
6. The WD Quick Formatter will show the progress bar while the format is taking place.
   
7. Once the Format is completed, click on the Format Another Drive button to select another WD external drive to format, or click on the Exit button to exit the program.

Note:

When WD Quick Formatter is finished, the drive will have one partition. This is necessary in order to optimize the performance of the drive.

I have just tried to change the format a 1tb NTFS drive to fat32 and I'm getting a message that the drive's too big. Can anyone help?

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Fat32 Formatter For Ps3

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According to this technet article, the largest FAT32 volume that Windows can create is 32GB. There are other methods to make larger volumes, since the theoretical max is 2TB, but you'll find support for large FAT32 volumes to be sparse.

If you're using this on an external device, you might want to look at exFAT.

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You can use the ridgecrop fat32 formatter to format the drive - bizzarely, while modern versions of windows cannot format large fat drives, they read them fine. The formatter is monumentally fast, so don't worry if it zips through the process.

If you don't want to read through all the juicy theory do a quick in page search for 'fat32format binary ~20K'

Journeyman Geek

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TV sets only recognise FAT32 partitions. Using an external HDD instead of a USB stick is great for storing home movies. Most modern video cameras have an 80GB HDD so you need somewhere to dump these files/movies to allow you to take more family videos.Alternatively you can use a media player like WDTV live & attach the 1TB HDD but when you're on a tight budget, there's no real need if you can format the HDD to FAT32

while I agree that there is no reason to use FAT32 anymore, I ran into this recently when connecting a hard drive to my Pioneer AVIC-Z130BT navigation. It only supports FAT32 much to my dismay. I got a portable 750GB drive and discovered through trial and error that I can't seem to get it to format any bigger than about 450GB. The utility was called fat32format, which is the same utility that Journeyman Geek mentioned. Google can point you to where you can pick up a copy for free.

While you're using larger drives, obviously you will be using large files to work with. there are several limitations with FAT32 file system including the size of the files, size of the volume can be created. Later it will be hard to go back if you use FAT32. exFAT is an alternative but I am not sure how well it performs better than NTFS. NTFS is a mature file system and most of the operating system supports read and write (especially Linux). So I'd suggest you to stay-back with NTFS for better performance and reliability.

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NTFS has no support and 'might' be OK if there is an IT technical department very close by. For home PCs using FAT32 is much more sensible as if/when there are problems, there's a much better chance of fixing most of what can go wrong. With NTFS the only option is an advanced data recovery commercial program such as Recoverer Ultimate Pro and even then you need restore space on another hard drive.

It isn't difficult to format even a 3TB drive with FAT32. Get a disk format utility from any major hard disk manufacturers' websites. DON'T use the MBR option, instead use the GUID option for the partition table, select FAT32 and let the utility do the rest. Reboot and all sorted!

Even Microsoft who invented NTFS DON'T recommend NTFS for home use!