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I followed the advice from Karen Morgan2 and deleted the volume. After that, my external drive wouldn't show up at all. I tried reinstalling the HDD, but nothing worked. I eventually tried it on another computer, and the drive appeared there. I formatted it on that machine, and now everything seems to be working fine on both computers. 😁
Karen Morgan2 said:The 32 GB limit is the standard ceiling for FAT32 on Windows. You can find third-party tools if you need an extended FAT32 option though.
Have you checked Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management? Or just hit Run and type in diskmgmt.msc.
Try using "delete volume" first, then try formatting it from scratch.
I suppose I will write back tomorrow afternoon; I don't have the USB drive with me right now. 😉
Hello.
I recently picked up a 250GB external hard drive. When I first got it, it was formatted as NTFS. However, since I wanted to watch movies on my DVD player using the drive, I reformatted it to FAT32. Ever since then, the drive shows a capacity of only about 30+ GB. I tried switching it back to NTFS, but it doesn't seem to fix anything. I guess I'm stuck.😕
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OS: Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
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