Questions & Answers for: Western Digital Elements format fat32

format it improperly or with a particular setting? thanks in advance! Kyle You probably formatted it with an NTFS filesystem. The Mac won't read NTFS drives. You will need to reformat the drive (after

...format from FAT32 to NTSF Says that it cannot format this drive and to quit disk utilities or any other programs that are using this drive, and make sure that no window is displaying the content of ...

...so the simple solution would be to format it to FAT32. The problem, would then be that you cannot transfer files larger than 4GB or a folders with more than 1000 files to a FAT32 drive. Hope this ...

...format it to FAT32 so I can use it with my Playstation 3. It formatted and now my laptop can only give it a drive letter but can't read the drive. When I tried to copy something to the external hard ...

format it to NTFS or FAT32; formats that are readable by Windows. I would recommend formatting it to NTFS, because you can only transfer up to 4 Gigabyte files to FAT32, while NTFS is nearly limitless

...seems to be working like a live cd. which file systen did you format with NTFS or FAT32 and what file system is your school? If it dont match it wont read. NTFS will read FAT32 but not other way ...

...format it to FAT32, could you please advise me on how to do this so I can use it on my PS3? Many thanks Siane Minard For Windows: Plug the external drive into your main computer. Open up My Computer, ...

can convert FAT32 to NTFS, but you cannot reverse this process. If you want to set up the hard drive for FAT32 you need to delete the NTFS partition the create a new partition and then format in FAT32

..."format..." from the menu. in the subsequent window, select FAT32 as File System and default as allocation size. please note that a FAT32 file system does NOT support files that are bigger than