I have a 320gb hard drive that is NTFS. I need it to be Fat32. I usually just use this
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
but for some reason I can't get this program to see the drive. The drive is mapped and healthy in disk management. I have tried to repartition and change drive letter but nothing. I can read and write to the disk also. Never had this problem before as this program was usually flawless. My only options with win7 is extfat and NTFS. I would like to stay away from the command line if all possible.
Any help would be welcome. Thanks
format /FS:FAT32 /v "my drive" /X
if you want something crazy with alocation size or something, just ask and ill change the above command.
quick explination, <format> specifies that you are formatting.
</FS:FAT32> specifies that you are formatting with fat32,
</v "my drive"> is the name of the volume. use quoteation marks, becasue if there is a space and no " then it will think the 2nd word is a command.
</x> is the only one that is not ovious. and it just tells it to dismount and close all handels if necisary.
if you have stuff on the drive you want gone, you can always do /P:3 which will do 3 passes of 0's
if you are impatient, /Q will do a quick format.
Thankks for te detailed help. Very grateful.Worked great.