Format an external hard disk

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Published on 2010-06-10T20:57:21Z Indexed on 2010/06/10 21:13 UTC
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I am trying to format an external hard disk to FAT32 (I need it to work with some hardware that expects it to be in FAT32). When I am trying to format it via windows the only option I'm getting is to format it to NTFS. Another strange thing is that when I am trying to format one of my own partitions (on the hard disk that is running the OS) I can do it only in NTFS while another partition my OS can format in both NTFS and FAT32.

What can cause such a behavior and how can I format the external hard disk to FAT32?

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