How to format external hard drive to FAT32 in Windows如何格式的外部硬盘驱动器，以在Windows 32
Posted on September 20, 2008 at 5:31 am发布9月20日在2008年上午05点31分
Trying to format a large external USB or Firewire hard drive to the FAT32 file system?试图格式大外部的USB或Firewire硬盘， FAT32文件系统 ？ Can’t do it?不能做到这一点吗？ Only see an option for formatting the drive using the NTFS file format?只看到一个选择格式化的驱动器使用的是NTFS文件格式？ Well if you answered yes any of those questions, then you’re at the right place.那么如果您有任何回答这些问题，那么您是在正确的位置。
I was recently trying to format my 1 TB MyBook external hard drive in Windows XP to FAT32 instead of the overly forced-upon NTFS format.最近我试图格式我一结核病MyBook外置硬盘Windows XP中FAT32的，而不是过分强迫各国NTFS格式。 Why?为什么？ Well because I needed to connect it to a NAS device and the NTFS permissions were causing the NAS not to be able to access the drive.好吧，因为我需要它连接到NAS设备和NTFS权限造成的NAS不能够访问驱动器。 Simple solution is to use FAT32, no security, no problems.简单的解决办法是使用FAT32 ，没有安全，没有问题。 Though it’s sometimes useful to虽然有时有用 format a USB drive in NTFS format格式化USB驱动器在NTFS格式 . 。
Also, formatting a drive in FAT or FAT32 will allow it to be read by other operating systems, such as Mac, Linux, and older versions of Windows such as Windows 98.此外，格式化驱动器在FAT或FAT32将使它能够读取的其他操作系统，如Mac ， Linux ，和旧版本的Windows ，如Windows 98 。
Unfortunately, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 will only format a removable drive in FAT32 if it’s less than 32GB!不幸的是， Windows XP和Windows Server 2003年将只格式可移动驱动器在FAT32的，如果不到有32G ！ Hmmm…that pretty much cuts out ALL modern external hard drives! Hmmm ...这几乎削减了所有现代外置硬盘！
However, Windows can format a drive that is larger than 32GB in FAT32, but you have to use the DOS command prompt.但是， Windows可以格式的驱动器是大于32GB的FAT32的，但你必须使用DOS命令提示符。 However, if you have a drive that is 1TB or larger, you may still get an error saying “ The volume is too big for FAT32 ”.然而，如果您有一个驱动器，是1TB或较大，您仍然可以得到一个错误说： “ 体积过大，无法用于FAT32的 。 ”
In that case, you can use a free program called SwissKnife that will allow you to format an external hard drive that is up to 2TB in size.在这种情况下，您可以使用一个免费程序要求SwissKnife ，让您的格式外部硬驱动器，是为2TB大小。 Let’s go through both methods.让我们通过这两种方法。 In case you are having problems getting your external hard drive to show up in Windows, read my article on how to如果你有问题让您的外部硬盘驱动器出现在Windows ，请阅读我的文章就如何 change the drive letter for an external drive in Windows更改盘符的外部驱动器在Windows . 。
Format external drive in FAT32 using DOS格式外部驱动器在使用FAT32的司
Open a command window by going to Start , then Run and typing in CMD .打开一个命令窗口将启动 ，然后运行，并输入指令 。
Now type in the following command at the prompt:现在，键入以下命令在提示：
format /FS:FAT32 X: 格式/财政司司长： 32十：
Replace the letter X with the letter of your external hard drive in Windows.改为第十信的信您外部硬盘驱动器在Windows 。 Windows will go ahead and begin formatting the drive in FAT32! Windows将继续，并开始格式化的驱动器在FAT32的！
Format external hard drive in FAT32 using SwissKnife格式外部硬盘驱动器在FAT32的使用SwissKnife
SwissKnife SwissKnife is a nifty little program that is completely free and that you can use to format many types of external drives such as USB, Firewire, PCMIA, SATA and SCSI.是一个漂亮的小程序，完全免费，您可以使用该格式的多种类型的外部驱动器，如USB接口，火线， PCMIA ，的SATA和SCSI 。 You can also use it to create partitions on an external hard drive and it formats faster than Windows.您也可以使用它来创建分区的外部硬盘驱动器和格式，速度比Windows操作系统。
So next time you want to format a hard drive in FAT32 and Windows only gives you an option for NTFS, make sure to follow one of the two method mentioned above.因此，下次你要格式化硬盘驱动器在32和Windows只给你一个选择的NTFS ，请务必遵循的两个上述方法。 Enjoy!享受！
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Cool tutorial.酷教程。 I think partition magic software will do it much easily.我认为，魔术分区软件将这样做容易得多。 What do you think?您觉得呢？