Trouble Formatting

[Ace2012]

I recently bought a 1.5TB external drive. I plan to use it to store movies for my PS3 so I need it to be FAT32. When I got it, my computer wouldnt let me format it into FAT32 so I took it to work and I used the CMD prompt to format it. For some reason it only let me format 320gb, to which I found out that I needed to use a app like Swissknife for large drives, but now when I go to format it, it wont let me format the full 1.5TB only the 320GB. Is there a way to fix this? I just need all of it as FAT32.

Thanks for any help.:good:

-AcE2012

 

[millz777]

I recently bought a 1.5TB external drive. I plan to use it to store movies for my PS3 so I need it to be FAT32. When I got it, my computer wouldnt let me format it into FAT32 so I took it to work and I used the CMD prompt to format it. For some reason it only let me format 320gb, to which I found out that I needed to use a app like Swissknife for large drives, but now when I go to format it, it wont let me format the full 1.5TB only the 320GB. Is there a way to fix this? I just need all of it as FAT32.

Thanks for any help.:good:

-AcE2012

if you format it to ntfs you will get all the space back, im sure after you format it in ntfs you can format the whole 1.5tb using swissknife into fat32

 

[Zatharus]

What is the manufacturer of the external drive? You will need to use their utility or another third party utility to create a large Fat32 volume. Also, you will need to re-partition the drive to get the extra space back into one contiguous volume if you want. Check out gparted.

What file system was on the drive when you bought it?