exFAT ---> FAT32

[Iamnotageek]

Hello all

My girlfriend has a 1TB external WD hard drive where she wants to put movies, tv shows etc on to watch on her HiSense plasma.

TV reads FAT32 fine, but this external via Windows format can only do exFAT & NTFS ( External is currently on NTFS )

My Question:

How do I format the 1TB external into FAT32 so she can copy stuff on and watch. Is there a 3rd party program that can do it?

Also, FAT32 can only do 32GB right? What happens to the remainder space? Automatically NTFS?

Basically how do I convert the 1TB into FAT32 readable partition(s)?

If someone can help I'd really appreciate it.

Thank you

 

[Hamster]

Won't go NTFS automatically.

You can try clearing the drive (as in remove the partition) and split it up into multiple partitions each formatted as FAT32. You'll end up with like 30 partitions so not really a good idea, but if you do do it - TAKE PICS and post a "How not to" thread

If your TV doesn't read NTFS you can maybe try a streaming solution or a media player that can read NTFS (MyGica, WD etc)

 

[MickZA]

GParted live - http://gparted.org/

It's free but you need some experience in using partitioning tools

 

[Iamnotageek]

Thx so much guys!

 

[Chevron]

Exfat might/should work.

They're very similar.

 

[Iamnotageek]

Exfat might/should work.

They're very similar.

Naaa, we tried it

 

[isie]

Naaa, we tried it

might be the TV cannot read drives over a certain size?

 

[backstreetboy]

Raspberry Pi and kodi...

 

[SYNERGY]

Try this: http://filehippo.com/download_hp_usb_disk_storage_format_tool/

Generally used for USB sticks only thou.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

There's a tool that we used back then to format 1TB to Fat32, for that old iSonic media players, will see if I remember the name. Think I saw someone used it to get a drive ready for a JTag xbox. But the problem isn't the size of the drive, rather the size of the media file. It won't allow files larger than 4gig.

I think command prompt might work.

 

[sajunky]

There's a tool that we used back then to format 1TB to Fat32, for that old iSonic media players, will see if I remember the name. Think I saw someone used it to get a drive ready for a JTag xbox. But the problem isn't the size of the drive, rather the size of the media file. It won't allow files larger than 4gig.

Correct. FAT32 can format very large partitions. Problem is with 32-bit limitation for maximum size of individual file, which is around 4GB.

Some old TV's do not accept large drives, I saw cases with maximum 4GB or 8GB. If you put larger USB stick, it is not recognised.

 

[SauRoNZA]

You don't want FAT32 as most movies won't fit.

What model is the TV?

 

[GreGorGy]

You don't want FAT32 as most movies won't fit.

What model is the TV?

My Mac formats FAT32 no matter the size of the HD natively. All fun and games until you want to copy a movie across that exceed the 4GB limit. That said, in all this time, I have only ever had one movie that was larger than that. Hateful 8 I think it was. Probably has everything to do with the definition of the picture - and if that plasma only does SD, then this is not going to be a problem - they'll just have to downscale if they run into big files.

 

[isie]

My Mac formats FAT32 no matter the size of the HD natively. All fun and games until you want to copy a movie across that exceed the 4GB limit. That said, in all this time, I have only ever had one movie that was larger than that. Hateful 8 I think it was. Probably has everything to do with the definition of the picture - and if that plasma only does SD, then this is not going to be a problem - they'll just have to downscale if they run into big files.

That
OP spend like R800 on a cheap android media player for your girl - no FAT 32 wories