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220Gb HDD, 34Gb available
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My brother formatted a 220Gb USB HDD (FAT32 using W7) so I could use it with my PS3. When I hooked it up it said it was 34 Gb. After googling I find that Windows 7 will not format large drives. Is there a way to fix this with OS X, or does my brother have to download and use "SwissKnife" I tried erasing using exFAT, but it still says 34Gb
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You can use OS X's included Disk Utility to format the entire 220GB as FAT32.
FAT32 was deprecated by MS years ago, so they never updated their FAT32 formatting tool to support larger volumes.
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I tried that. Disk Utility sees only 34GB.
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Repartition the drive as part of the formatting. Win7 must have created a 34 GB partition. Make it one big partition, then format.
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Ok I swapped it out with 120GB drive and it says it's 120GB. (NTFS) Should I use Disk Utility FAT32 or have my brother use swisskinife?
(Last edited by Chongo; Jul 11, 2011 at 03:41 PM.
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Use Disk Utility, pick the disk, repartition it as 1 partition, FAT32.
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It looks like the 220 was damaged.
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