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[h1024o]

I am adding a external hard drive to my pc and would like to know if I can format it on another pc with xp? My os is me. Thanks

[Force Flow]

Yes, however, if you are going to use the drive on a winME machine, the drive will need to be formatted as FAT32-- winME has no NTFS support.

[h1024o]

Thanks, Whats happening is I am trying to add an external hard drive but I can`t find it any where to format it. I have checked in the bios but it isn`t there. Could it be because it is connected through usb?

[glc]

You can do this within ME. Open a command prompt and run FDISK. Use option 5 to select the unpartitioned disk and create a primary DOS partition. You will then see it in My Computer and be able to right click on it and format it.

[imhowie]

When I do that it only gives me 4 options. And sorry about the double post, I was just trying to explain why I was asking to see if I could format a new hard drive from another pc.

[Cricket]

Wait...is imhowie the same person as h1024o?

:) Cricket

[imhowie]

No, I signed my dad up to the forum and he ask me to do the posts for him.

[glc]

The only problem with doing it in XP is XP can only create 32gb or less FAT32 partitions. If this is acceptable, do it in Disk Management.

[imhowie]

When I opened a command promp to fdisk it only gave me 4 choices.