Comments on: FAT32 Format

By: Dante

Dante — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:57:22 +0000

Hmmm… that’s nice to know. I got so bored waiting for Windows to format the drive, I just stopped it and used fat32format.

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:37:30 +0000

I do not know about Vista but the command lets you only format hard drives of 32 Gigabytes or less in XP

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:06:55 +0000

Just tried that format drive: /fs:fat32 in Vista. I think I like the fat32format.exe better. For my purposes, the speedier formating is a life saver. Too many stupid little drives to format at one time - boredom will kill me

By: Dante

Dante — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:44:57 +0000

The link should be http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm

And thanks for the tip on format drive: /fs:fat32. I HATE when OS companies bury cryptic commands when they’re supposed to be oh so GUI friendly.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:54:41 +0000

FORMAT drive /FS:FAT32
works in XP for sure - and as I just saw - in Vista too

By: Thinker

Thinker — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:16:36 +0000

Bad link ^^

By: e-t-c

e-t-c — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:46:07 +0000

Dead LInk
404 The page was not found
Please visit the homepage of ghacks or use the site search on the right.

BTW: The Windows FORMAT.EXE can also Formatting more than 32 GB Partitions.

But there is a smart GUI Version for this …

Fat32Formatter 1.0 (Autor: TOKIWA - JAPAN)

DD: Nov 2007 - 187 KB - Englisch - Standalone (.zip) - Freeware
OS: Windows 2000 XP Vista

HP: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/index.html
DL: http://www.freewarefiles.com/downloads_counter.php?programid=38041

SS: http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/Fat32Formatter.jpg

By: no need

no need — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:02:09 +0000

format drive: /fs:fat32
works fine in vista