If anyone has done disk backups using the DOS Ghost client (or other DOS based clients) you have probably had some issues with NTFS. Don’t get me wrong, NTFS is a pretty decent file system, but FAT32 is noticeably more compatible.<\/p>\n
Getting a drive that’s NTFS to work on DOS\/MAC\/Pre-Windows 98\/Linux is sometimes a PITA.<\/p>\n
Most external drives come preformatted as FAT32 for this very reason. If you need it NTFS that’s no big deal – just open up the disk manager in Windows and blast away (diskmgmt.msc). Windows, however, has a limit on formatting for FAT partitions: 32GB. Whoopie.<\/p>\n
The easiest way is to use a disk formatting utility (Hiren’s has some good ones on there). The second easiest is to use DOS style commands.<\/p>\n
The command can be broken down as follows: ***EDIT*** If anyone has done disk backups using the DOS Ghost client (or other DOS based clients) you have probably had some issues with NTFS. Don’t get me wrong, NTFS is a pretty decent file system, but FAT32 is noticeably more compatible. Getting a drive that’s NTFS to work on DOS\/MAC\/Pre-Windows 98\/Linux is sometimes a PITA. … Continue reading Format Large HD FAT32<\/span> Start<\/code>
\nRun<\/code>
\nCMD<\/code>
\nformat \/FS:FAT32 G:<\/code>
\nY<\/code><\/p>\n
\nFormat <\/em>– this is the actual command
\n\/FS:FAT32<\/em> – Filesystem Fat32
\nG:<\/em> – the drive letter of the drive you want to reformat<\/p>\n
\nApparently you can also use several freeware programs. One that was given to me is called Swissknife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"