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formatting a hard drive with exFAT

By phyzfer · Oct 27, 2009in General💬 6 posts👁️ 2,079 views
Posted Oct 27, 2009 · 14:13 UTC#1

Hi everyone,

 

I'm prepping a hard drive I have (250GB WD Passport) for use with my F700BT. I can only format with exFAT (FAT64). I've read that I should format as FAT32, but because the hard drive is larger than FAT32 can support I have to format it with exFAT. Has anyone done this?

 

It's a very tedious task of moving over 150GB of files, and if I can get clarification regarding this it'll help. Else, I'll have to purchase a 100GB hard drive and use that for my files (while formatting it with FAT32).

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks!

Posted Oct 27, 2009 · 16:00 UTC#2
Hi everyone,

 

I'm prepping a hard drive I have (250GB WD Passport) for use with my F700BT. I can only format with exFAT (FAT64). I've read that I should format as FAT32, but because the hard drive is larger than FAT32 can support I have to format it with exFAT. Has anyone done this?

 

It's a very tedious task of moving over 150GB of files, and if I can get clarification regarding this it'll help. Else, I'll have to purchase a 100GB hard drive and use that for my files (while formatting it with FAT32).

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

thanks!

 

FAT32 support _far_ bigger drives than puny 250GB.

Posted Oct 27, 2009 · 16:25 UTC#3

that's odd. Windows7 disagrees with that.

 

I did this in command prompt:

format /FS:FAT32 X:

 

It errored out saying the drive was too large. Perhaps windows7 just doesn't like it. I might be running 64-bit windows though, although I don' t think that should matter. Any information regarding formatting using exFAT?

Posted Oct 27, 2009 · 20:32 UTC#4
that's odd. Windows7 disagrees with that.

 

I did this in command prompt:

format /FS:FAT32 X:

 

It errored out saying the drive was too large. Perhaps windows7 just doesn't like it. I might be running 64-bit windows though, although I don' t think that should matter. Any information regarding formatting using exFAT?

 

Vista, or 7, just do not like formatting large drives with FAT32 for some Microsoft's reasons. Use a third-party tool, i.e. something from here:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#format

Posted Oct 28, 2009 · 07:33 UTC#5

thanks! I used the h2format tool within a XP VM i had running on Windows7. Worked beautifully.

Posted Oct 28, 2009 · 16:24 UTC#6
thanks! I used the h2format tool within a XP VM i had running on Windows7. Worked beautifully.

 

You're welcome!