I was trying to format an external harddrive to be used with my Mac and Windows XP machines.
Mac must have Fat32 to be able to exchange information with another Windows machine.
Windows XP will not allow you to format a new drive as Fat 32. It can read a drive up to 2TB but will not allow you to create one.
The work around is to mount the drive as a logical drive and assign it a letter, but not format it if it is a disk that has never been formatted. If it has a drive letter already you can skip this part. To mount the drive right click My computer and then select manage. Then select Disks / Drives. Right click on the drive select create logical drive.
Once this is done open a DOS command window (Start button/run type cmd) and type format g: /FS:FAT32 Where g: is the logical drive letter you assigned when you mounted the drive.
After I wrote this an easier utility to use is http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
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