Can anyone help me?

I needed my Iomega HDD Re-formatting for the purpose of being a PS3 back-up. At first tried the DOS approach without much success; getting the error message after around 3 hours of ‘too big for fat32′ or something to that effect, as others have done. So tried POST #37; was a bit wary at first, but it worked a treat, followed his instructions and did it in what – less than 2 seconds – make sure to use quick formatting mind. Brilliant, thanks a lot will.

KH∀ said on : February 11th, 2009 at 1:57 am

Solution for those who are having trouble with “get 429 GB out of a 1TB External HDD” using :

Two System of Steps:

First Steps: Format it to NTFS using WINDOWS –> the control panel–> Administrative Tools –> Computer Management –> Disk Management –> Format all of it to NTFS (I used Quick format)

Second Steps: Re-Format it to FAT32 using SWISSKNIFE, swissknife will recognize the whole 1TB now –> right click on the NTFS partition –> format –> Format all to FAT32 (also used Quick format)

First it will not display FAT32 conversion. Unplug the external HD safely, replug it back in pc/latop so it’ll recognize it as FAT32. Finish.

I found this out after hours….of finding how Not to do it. Just want to share how I did, to save some people time.

Takes twenty seconds to download and the formatting takes about twenty seconds more…….

This is the simplest way.

Good luck,
Viking

SwissKnife and all other solutions didnt work on a drive of this size.

Save your time and go straight to thi for a quick effective solution. Would have saved me two hours if i’d known this first of all. Dont forget to delete NTFS partition first in this programme. The Fat32Formatter found at http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/index.html

For example, even though the size of the HDD will not change when formatting it to FAT32, the engineer is not allowed to waste the 2 nanoseconds of processing time to perform:

if (size > MAX_FAT32)
{
cout>>”The volume is too big for FAT32.\n”;
return;
}

Why? Because preventing the user from wasting 2 or 3 hours of their life on an operation that the software knew up front was impossible is not the experience Microsoft wants users to have with their products. Microsoft loves maximizing misery and crushing the human spirit. This is why they flipped the gaming community the bird when it came to the RRoD and why so many Microsoft software products enjoy spending loads of time on operations that the software knows up front cannot be completed.