Formatting external USB drive in winxp

[oslama]

I am trying to format a external 120gb hard drive on a winxp (fat32) machine. Windows defaults to NTFS but i want FAT32. Is there a usb utility that will format in FAT32 via windows environment.

I do not want to internally install the drive to format.

I have tried the HP USB storage utility but it crapp out at 99% with volume too big error.

 

[jondercik]

Can FAT32 support that big of a volume?

 

[BlueWeasel]

While W2K and XP can support FAT32 volumes over 32GB, they can't format partitions larger than 32GB.

 

[LED]

Boot the XP Disc and format or use a software such as Partition Magic...

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: LED
Boot the XP Disc and format or use a software such as Partition Magic...

Are external USB drives recognized in the XP partition manager? Just asking because I've never tried it before and didn't think it would work.

 

[LED]

Yes BlueWeasel...it even wiped my CF card once and i had a hell of a time reformatting it !