Help me find a FAT32 portable HD

Duke Leonal Felmet · 2011-06-18 13:32:34

Hello, I am looking for a portable FAT32 hard drive, one that does not require its own power supply, but draws it from the USB. I am aware of the limitation of FAT32. Cheap as possible, thanks.

18-06-2011 02:32PM

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Duke Leonal Felmet

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Hello, I am looking for a portable FAT32 hard drive, one that does not require its own power supply, but draws it from the USB. I am aware of the limitation of FAT32.

Cheap as possible, thanks.

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#2 18-06-2011 02:48PM

softdancomputer

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just find your external drive, and you can format it after as FAT32

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#3 18-06-2011 03:02PM

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softdancomputer wrote: »

just find your external drive, and you can format it after as FAT32

Yeah, I have been trying this. Windows doesn't seem to like doing this, I spent all last night trying the "solutions" I found on the various fora and blogs I found. Just wondering if anyone knows a specific drive out there.

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#4 18-06-2011 03:08PM

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Maybe try deleting all partitions first from DiskManagement, then add one (or more, if you like) and format from blank.

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#5 18-06-2011 03:25PM

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bedlam wrote: »

Any drive will do, just format it with fat32format

SwissKnife is also good at formatting a hard drive to FAT32, as said above any drive will work

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