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<blockquote data-quote="Kyomii" data-source="post: 89561" data-attributes="member: 7328"><p>Just to clear up a couple of things mentioned:</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Yes you can. Its very simple. Once a drive is converted to NTFS and you want it back to FAT32, you can utilise many ways of doing this, the most common being fdisk. Boot to fdisk, choose to delete the non-fat partiton (NTFS), and create a new one in FAT32 - it really is as simple as that.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>If that was the case, all machines running WinXP (or other FAT32 drives) would be stifled at 32 GB regardless of size of hard drive. You can do a FAT 32 partition to what size you want basically, as long as your BIOS supports large hard drives.</p><p></p><p>The 32 GB and 8GB limit, was a restriction of the BIOS, not the hard drive partition.</p><p></p><p>It seems to me that you need to delete and recreat the partition (did you delete and recreate or did you just format?) - use a simple method like Fdisk, as it appears you are trying to format NTFS to FAT 32 which will NOT wwork unless you delete and recreate. </p><p></p><p>The volume should not need a name, but its up to you if you choose one. If you can then mount the drive on the Mac, it should be recognised no problem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kyomii, post: 89561, member: 7328"] Just to clear up a couple of things mentioned: Yes you can. Its very simple. Once a drive is converted to NTFS and you want it back to FAT32, you can utilise many ways of doing this, the most common being fdisk. Boot to fdisk, choose to delete the non-fat partiton (NTFS), and create a new one in FAT32 - it really is as simple as that. If that was the case, all machines running WinXP (or other FAT32 drives) would be stifled at 32 GB regardless of size of hard drive. You can do a FAT 32 partition to what size you want basically, as long as your BIOS supports large hard drives. The 32 GB and 8GB limit, was a restriction of the BIOS, not the hard drive partition. It seems to me that you need to delete and recreat the partition (did you delete and recreate or did you just format?) - use a simple method like Fdisk, as it appears you are trying to format NTFS to FAT 32 which will NOT wwork unless you delete and recreate. The volume should not need a name, but its up to you if you choose one. If you can then mount the drive on the Mac, it should be recognised no problem. [/QUOTE]
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