How to format USB HDD? (newbie)

Win2K and XP both support Fat32 and NTFS.

Marc Reinig
System Solutions

"wintermute" wrote in message
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I was wondering, can you format to fat32 the same way?

I may be wrong but I don't think that 2000 or XP will format a drive as
anything but NTFS. I haven't got a spare drive to test it out on right
now.
If you can get hold of Acronis OS Selector though, the disk management
tool
will let you partition and format drives in a variety of filesystems,
Windows and otherwise. Can't use it on a USB drive though, because the DOS
that it runs on has no USB drivers so it wouldn't be seen.

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:23:59 +0100, "wintermute"
wrote:

I was wondering, can you format to fat32 the same way?

I may be wrong but I don't think that 2000 or XP will format a drive as
anything but NTFS. I haven't got a spare drive to test it out on right now.
If you can get hold of Acronis OS Selector though, the disk management tool
will let you partition and format drives in a variety of filesystems,
Windows and otherwise. Can't use it on a USB drive though, because the DOS
that it runs on has no USB drivers so it wouldn't be seen.



Windows XP/2000 will both format in FAT16 or FAT32, but are limited on
the size of a FAT32 partition (i think the limit is 32gb, but I could
be wrong). When you use disk manager, FAT is an option.

Jim