wyantm06 Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 Ok I been trying everything. No luck in formatting to FAT32!! Ok I am using Partition Magic 8 at the moment. I click format on it but only option I get is NTFS, Linux EXT1 and Linux EXT 2...How can I format this to FAT32? Please help. MUCH APPRECIATED Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 thats because fat32 will only do up to 32GB partition size. You shouldn't use the fat system anyway, its very old and out dated not to mention slow. Go with NTFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted February 28, 2008 Author CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 I got a DVR and external only allows FAT32 it says...Wow...This blows...So I can only have a 32GB DVR...How sweet, maybe like a few movies... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 you can excead the 32 gig limit if you use a 3d party program to format the disk but the files that you put on the drive can not be larger then 4 gigs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 you can excead the 32 gig limit if you use a 3d party program to format the disk but the files that you put on the drive can not be larger then 4 gigs That will cause a problem when he puts the drive back in the DVR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 only if he trys to record something that is bigger then 4 gigs witch will happen vary easy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vern Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 Ranish Partition Manager will do what you are wanting to do. http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/FAT32.htm You will have to live with the 4 gig file size limit though. That means you will most likely have to split movies into 2 separate files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starship_troopers Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 isnt that what chapters are for? my dvd recorder (i kno its not an actual DVR) has the option to record into certain file sizes then it creates a new file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fattymcbluff Posted February 28, 2008 CID Share Posted February 28, 2008 well there you go it will work perfect Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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