By typing pressing Y and hitting return, you're also absolving me of liability for whatever was on the disk before.Īssuming you don't bail out at this point you should see something like this. If you format the boot sector, FATs and root directory will be filled with zeros. Now when it says this, it really means it. Warning ALL data on drive 'f' will be lost irretrievably, are you sure (y/n) You need to replace f: with the drive letter you are trying to format. Note if this sort of command line stuff makes your head hurt, you should probably give this a try instead When the command prompt opens, type this - C:\ is the place you extracted the exe file to.
#Disk genius 32 kb clusters fat32 code#
It is important that any explorer windows are closed that refer to the drive being formatted as an error code results if not.Įxtract the single EXE file to somewhere suitable, like C:\.
#Disk genius 32 kb clusters fat32 how to#
Today I found out how to format a large SATA external drive as FAT32 to make this process easier.Ī small program called fat32format.exe is run through the Command Prompt (cmd) and run at Administrator level.
I need a drive to swap between an iMAC and a Windows 7 PC.Ī Mac will read an NTFS drive but wont write to it so I have been using USB memory sticks. The options in Disk Management in Windows 7 for formatting an external HDD is NTFS or exFAT.
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