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how to format back up hdd to fat32 using xp sp3

Anonymous
2011-04-09T01:07:30+00:00

I picked up a 320G HDD to back up my computer. Using windows formatting, it will only format this drive in NTFS.  My C drive is FAT32.  How do I format this external USB drive to FAT32?

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-06-24T09:56:06+00:00

    With the article about how to format NTFS to FAT32 without data losing you can find the efficiently method. (:

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  2. Anonymous
    2011-05-18T23:59:48+00:00

    I did it with Acronis. Reloaded XP, loaded all drivers for the new laptop and I have all my cad programs working again.  Kept WIN7 Pro HDD for future use.  Thanks for the reminding me of this command line, I did forget about it.  Windows has made me quite lazy since the days of basic and dos.

    Thank you

    Jim

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-05-18T20:01:23+00:00

    Hi,

    You can accomplish this by running a command.

    Note: You need to format the drive in this procedure which will result in the loss of data.

    To convert an existing NTFS volume to FAT or FAT32, follow these steps:

    a. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Command Prompt.

    b. At the command prompt, type the following, where drive letter is the drive that you want to convert:

    Type the following command to convert drive E to NTFS:

    convert e: /fs:fat32

    Hope this helps.

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