i need to format my external HDD into two partitions, ~200 GB of FAT32 and the rest NTFS, what program should I use?7 only lets me do all or nothing into NTFS or exFAT. not sure why.
2/24/2010 6:43:35 PM
Tech Talk.
2/24/2010 6:43:50 PM
that's fucking lame. find an XP computer, lol
2/24/2010 6:44:02 PM
Chit chat = tech talk #2^i'm gonna try to do it on a VM really quickXP is only letting me format 100% of it to NTFSmaybe I should try it out?]
2/24/2010 6:44:11 PM
just unplug it when it's halfway done
2/24/2010 7:01:35 PM
2/24/2010 7:37:34 PM
i loled
2/24/2010 7:49:19 PM
first, do this in disk manager on windows. you will only be able it do fat32 with like gpardite or something older than XP. do your 200 first in this, then your ntfs in whatever, xp or otherwise.
2/24/2010 8:02:09 PM
i went to download.com and found Partition Wizard Home Edition v4.4 or something like that. it's creating another partition for me in FAT32. hopefully that will work
2/24/2010 8:13:32 PM
never used it but i guess itll work. you can only do fat32 and maybe 16 in windows versions older than xp.
2/24/2010 8:17:05 PM
so far so good, it's going pretty slowly but then again I'm torrenting and browsing the internet while I attempt to format something into a much larger drive than windows would like me to considering the format
2/24/2010 8:21:40 PM
EASEUS Partition Master (sp?)
2/24/2010 8:24:22 PM
why do you want the FAT32 anyway?
2/24/2010 8:31:02 PM
gparted may be able to do this, but I haven't used it in a while so I'm not sureyea, what Master_Yoda said, didn't see he'd already mentioned it[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 8:40 PM. Reason : .]
2/24/2010 8:39:31 PM
I want to be able to hook the hard drive up to my xbox 360 and play video off it. for whatever reason microsoft made the 360 only read FAT32. I'd prefer to use NTFS or even exFAT but neither is supported by the 360. I can't play HD movies because of the size restrictions, but i'll live with streaming any of those
2/24/2010 8:43:28 PM
^^I forgot about that program
2/24/2010 8:45:30 PM
if, for whatever reason, this doesn't work i'll try that. i'm disk checking it right now to make sure it didn't do something stupid, then i'm gonna transfer a lot of shit onto it
2/24/2010 9:11:18 PM
everyone should have a copy of backtrack or a live linux cd to handle stuff like this.
2/24/2010 9:29:53 PM
10 GB into a 110 GB transfer onto the FAT32 partition, and when that finishest i'm gonna attempt to play something off the HD on the 360, if that fails... i'm gonna delete the partitions, reformat all into NTFS, and say fuck I wasted a day
2/24/2010 10:01:31 PM