Can you format a device withought deleting the essential files.
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What do you mean there is a partition to make the hard drive run? If Windows is on that partition then you can format the other partition.
But that depends on where windows that you are using is installed.
And as tigerg said. Why would you want FAT32. First of all you would not be able to store any single file above 4GB as FAT32 can not index a file that large.
But that depends on where windows that you are using is installed.
And as tigerg said. Why would you want FAT32. First of all you would not be able to store any single file above 4GB as FAT32 can not index a file that large.
Like others have pointed there is no point going for FAT32 over NTFS.
Even if it's for compatibility issues, there is no real advantage in formatting a 1TB drive to FAT32 since you cannot store files larger than 4 GB.
Instead try exfat-it supports file size greater than 4+GB. But then again it is somewhat newer so you may run into compatibility issues-but it is also more portable than NTFS
Even if it's for compatibility issues, there is no real advantage in formatting a 1TB drive to FAT32 since you cannot store files larger than 4 GB.
Instead try exfat-it supports file size greater than 4+GB. But then again it is somewhat newer so you may run into compatibility issues-but it is also more portable than NTFS
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