FAT32 formatter for 1.5TB HDD?

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johnathonmerritt on 07 April 2010

One of my friends has just bought a 1.5TB Seagate HDD so he can connect it to his PS3. Naturally, it came with NTFS so I need to format it in FAT32. I have been using a program called SWISSKNIFE for a few years now for myself, but it seems it is not compatible with a HDD this size. It show the HDD as 403XXX MB when it is actually 1403XXX MB. I created the 400GB system, but it still will not recognize the other TB. I tried formatting 600GB to NTFS using Windows hoping it would then see the other 900GB, but that didn't work either. I don't have internet at my house, so I have to download the program here at work, then take it home to my PC to use it. FAT32 is compatible up to 2TB. If anyone knows a program that will work, please let me know. If I have to make multiple partitions, I can. I would rather have the one partition at 1.5TB. Thanks in advance.

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salaminizer on 07 April 2010

you can use GParted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

you can copy to a USB and boot it from there, then format your HD.

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a12331 on 07 April 2010

you could use windows to do it. it can format the whole thing in fat32.

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docholliday on 07 April 2010

@a12331, windows wont format the whole thing. Windows has a very small partition size for fat32, I believe 32Gb max. @ OP, use this http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/ I had the same issues tryin to find a format tool when I bought my 1TB external drive, tried swiss knife as well. This tool is real simple and straight to the point, worked great for me.