Format 750GB HD to FAT32

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  1. jucealala

    jucealala Member

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    I am trying to format a 750GB hard drive to fat 32 so my dvd player will recognise it.

    I'm running 62-bit Windows 7 and for this reason didn't use swissknife. I used this link http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

    It worked, except now the hard drive only shows 185GB of space. Why would it do this and how can I reverse it back to 750GB?
     
  2. tongs007

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    arconis disk director does it great for my ps3, you can get it free from them sites we cant discuss ;)
     
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    oh and just delete the volume in windows disk management
     
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    minitool partition wizard is free for personal use,they also have free partition & software recovery apps as does easeus
     
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    i find easus a bit sticky on formats but for data recovery its brilliant, i ran it on a tb once and it found 98% i reckon
     
  6. jucealala

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    Thanks :)

    I ended up using a program on a computer with XP. Took longer to download the program than to format.
     

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