New External HDD help

[AntonyTheGreat]

Hey i want to put my backups on my external 1TB Hard Drive from WD Elements i got it from Tesco ( http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.206-4435.aspx ) as a cheap one... well i got two infact one for PC and one for ps3 but i cannot seem to format it to fat32 i tried using DOS and it took ages then it came back with too large to format to fat32 or something simmilar i also checked under windows and it says it can only format to exFat and NTFS.

so can you help me work out a way to format it to fat32 as it currently is NTFS and not picked up by the ps3

many thanks

[liamc3000]

if you find your hard drive on the western digital site in download section they have a utility to format which i have used before and works.

[chesh]

I used a free command line utility called fat32format. Just Google it.

[AntonyTheGreat]

if you find your hard drive on the western digital site in download section they have a utility to format which i have used before and works.

failed when i tried that

[taydu]

Go to control panel >>> Administrative tool >>> Computer Management >>> Disk Management >>> Format the hard drive you want.

Or

use Swiffknife (google it)

[AntonyTheGreat]

Go to control panel >>> Administrative tool >>> Computer Management >>> Disk Management >>> Format the hard drive you want.

Or

use Swiffknife (google it)

i tried both of them and neither worked (im on windows 7 if that makes a difference) but it found a solution for it after being told fat32format i googled it and found the GUI and it worked like a charm thanks to everyone for the help