Why do you want to format ur USB hard drive to FAT32. NTFS is better. It has
got journaling which FAT32 lacks. The latest kernels of Linux can read NTFS
partitons also.

Robin

2009/1/22 adnan shoeb <[email protected]>

> Greetings everyone.
>
>  I need to format the external USB hard drive to FAT32. It is Maxtor with
> 200MB. When I try to format it from the Disk Management it allows me to
> format only in NTFS. I want to use this hard drive for Linux Also, and thats
> why I want FAT32. Thanks for any further help.
>
> --
> Adnan Shoeb
>
> >
>


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