I just bought a desktop hard drive attached to a external casing. Before I started putting it in the enclosure, I formatted it with my desktop pc....but somehow it only have a NTFS format and the FAT32 is not available for this drive. Is this normal?? I've never came across with this kinda drive that doesn't have the FAT32 format.
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A 3.5" HDD formatting format
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A 3.5" HDD formatting format
-Thinkpad T23 1.2Ghz (2647-4RG) with Docking Station (2631)
-512MB RAM
-60GB Western Digital HDD
-3Com X-Jack Wireless A/B/G
-Imation External Combo DVD/CDRW
-Windows XP Pro SP2
-External 160GB Maxtor HDD
-512MB RAM
-60GB Western Digital HDD
-3Com X-Jack Wireless A/B/G
-Imation External Combo DVD/CDRW
-Windows XP Pro SP2
-External 160GB Maxtor HDD
There are probably various ways to do this, but doing a quick search I came up with the following: In XP Pro, go to Start > "Help and Support", type format in the search box then click on the arrow to the right. Choose "Format a dynamic volume", then choose "Using a command line". This tells you how to do it. Just open a command prompt (from Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt), then type in the command and press the enter key.
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