gate1975mlm
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| SwissKnife
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I have been looking for an easy to use tool that will format a NTFS drive into a Fat32 drive. And from what I understand a program called SwissKnife can do this while in the windows desktop. But its crashing on my windows Vista. And there web site does not say it supports Vista yet.
Is there any other software that can format a NTFS drive into a Fat32 drive from the desktop?
I need fat32 because the PS3 can not read NTFS. |
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howie
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| Just curious why you need to format "from the desktop". Any of the hard drive setup utilities available for free can do this from a boot disc as well as the Acronis TI boot CD.
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jbob
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I found Swissknife for the same reason you did except mine was to format a USB drive. It works great in XP but haven't tried it in Vista. You might try installing it by right clicking the installer and choosing "Run As Admin" conversely after install you might right click the executable and choosing the "Run As" option there as well.
As Howie mentioned there are others from a boot disk but I am drawing a blank for other 3rd party windows apps. |
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gate1975mlm
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said by howie  :Just curious why you need to format "from the desktop". Any of the hard drive setup utilities available for free can do this from a boot disc as well as the Acronis TI boot CD. So you are saying I can format a 120GB external hard drive into a 120GB Fat32 drive with the Acronis TI boot CD? |
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howie
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| said by gate1975mlm :said by howie :Just curious why you need to format "from the desktop". Any of the hard drive setup utilities available for free can do this from a boot disc as well as the Acronis TI boot CD. So you are saying I can format a 120GB external hard drive into a 120GB Fat32 drive with the Acronis TI boot CD? Sure... Just choose "add new disk" on the menu and do it from there. I've formatted several drives using the TI CD. Just to be sure, you do mean format (erase) and not convert, right?
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gate1975mlm
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November 23rd, @08:59PM
| said by howie :said by gate1975mlm :said by howie :Just curious why you need to format "from the desktop". Any of the hard drive setup utilities available for free can do this from a boot disc as well as the Acronis TI boot CD. So you are saying I can format a 120GB external hard drive into a 120GB Fat32 drive with the Acronis TI boot CD? Sure... Just choose "add new disk" on the menu and do it from there. I've formatted several drives using the TI CD. Just to be sure, you do mean format (erase) and not convert, right? Yes format (erase)  Can you convert also? |
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howie
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| No, the only utilities I've seen that do this (convert NTFS>FAT32) are disk partitioning tools such as Partition Magic.
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gate1975mlm
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| said by howie :No, the only utilities I've seen that do this (convert NTFS>FAT32) are disk partitioning tools such as Partition Magic. Cool thanks for all the info |
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howie
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| No problem... just be aware that drive letters are sometimes different than what they are in Windows when using boot media applications such as TI.
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