fat32

Hi, I have some problem with my external hard drive and I would appreciate any advise you can give me to solve this. I have Toshiba 500GB hard drive that I bought just over 2 years ago. I am using it to backup my data from pc, and sometimes to play a movie from it. Recently I can't access...

Hi all, only found this forum today, looks very useful. I have a problem someone here might be able to throw some light on. I am trying to format an external 80gb hdd in fat 32, and it keeps stopping saying "hdd too large" i have tried different ways with no joy, anyone have any ideas ? thanks...

Hi, this is my first post, because I really cannot work out what is going on! I have a recently bought 500GB external hard drive (NTFS) which I want to partition to have a 100GB partition formatted to either FAT32 or Mac Extended Journaled. I have 228gb free on the drive, but when I go to Shrink...

Hello! I've moved tons of files to an external hard drive [Samsung external USB HD (FAT32)]. After that, I've tried to eject the device in Windows 7, via Safely Remove Hardware but Windows said that the device was in use, even though everything (applications and windows) were closed. I decided...

I created a new partition and formatted it into Fat32 so my PS3 could recognize it. Now I don't need it. I now have a 30 GB and a 100 MB partition, and I don't know how to get rid of them.

I have a new Ford that has the Ford Sync. I've had trouble finding something to work with Ford Sync from all kinds of usb thumbdrives, to Zune, to portable usb drive. I want it to show the artist/song title on the screen and be able to use voice commands to play songs/artists, etc. The only...

I'm studying for the 70-680 Exam Practice Question: 1.Which of the following is not a volume type usable by Windows 7? A. FAT B. FAT32 C. exFAT D. NTFS Answer None of the above Does that mean that Volume type is not File System? Does it refer to Simple, Spanned, Striped? as...

Ok, my Mac crashed and I purchased a PC. I was finally able to copy over the files from my Mac backup drive (which has not comparable PC software). It all seemed great until I tried to view the folder backups.backupdb, which has 59 folders of backup data (all segregated by dates). If I view...

Hi, i used to have ubuntu on my pc but as a gamer i allways use windows too,i have 2 maxtor 250gb and one 500gb WD which i want to use only for data,so first i installed ubuntu 10.04LTS on one maxtor i formated the WD as "FAT(Visible to windows)" - that's what ubuntu said.. and then i...

Hi, everyone, I am having some issues with Win7 Starter on my ASUS EEE PC being able to carry out network discovery on my home network. When I go to Network, the status bar across the top fills veeeerrrry slowly. Also,the computer cannot readily identify other computers on my home network...

There seems to be a mystery as to how to backup a PS3. I can't get any straight answers, so I'm trying this forum. All I want to do is backup the harddrive, not put in a new hard drive. I have a 500Gig external harddrive partitioned into 4 partitions around 110Gig each. FAT32. Is there a...

Hi All Does win 7 run (see) on fat32 file system ? If not, I am in good luck. I have installed dual boot with win xp and win 7 on c and d drive respectively. Both of them are ntfs. Now, what happens, most of the device driver softwares for win 7 install by default on drive c: So, if I convert...

For the last 2 or so months I have been unable to format to or read usb thumb drives that are FAT or FAT32, I tried everything that I have read but none of it worked. I recently discovered that I am now unable to format to NTFS too, I can still read it but wonder how long until that goes away...

Recently Windows 7 wants to format any FAT and FAT32 USB thumb drives or SD cards when they are put in. It wont format to FAT and wont show the files on them either. There seems to be nothing wrong with the thumb drives themselves because they are read on other computers. It read them about a...

Recently Windows 7 wants to format FAT and FAT32 USB thumb drives or SD cards when they are put in. I wont format to FAT and wont read them either. I can not format them I need whats on them and maybe put more on them. It read them about a month ago with no problem and I haven't installed...

I have installed windows 7 from bootable USB on an old HDD(80 GB) segate and now tryin to install the same on new 500GB western digital and cannot complete sometimes it cannot configure the components and sometimes it cannot detect the ACPI.sys file after reboot... Please someone help..Is it the...

My pc was running Xp and I had 2 hard drives installed, 1 for system stuff and the other backing up. I removed the back-up drive and installed W7 on the main drive. When I reconnected the back-up drive W7 doesn't see my files, it just sees a blank disk 127GB capacity. I've tried to connect the...

Under properties the drive is "FAT32" I wanted to convert it to NTFS, however it will not let me do this. I right click on the drive and select format and immediatly the drive disapears and I get a pop-up stating: There is no disk in drive E: Insert a disk, and then try again. I also...

1. if i put my page file swap file temp folder on its own partition, is it best to use fat32? if i remember right fat 32 is fastest just isnt the best for space usage. 2. does reinstalling windows after time (1-2 years) create better performance? im not sure what it is but windows xp and...

These screenshots say the most: Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error I deleted a nearly full Windows partition using Boot Camp Assistant and reinstalled Windows, this time partitioning the drive (320gb) in half. During Windows installation it said the BOOTCAMP...