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I just bought a 2tb drive that I had planned to use as my makeshift media centre.

I currently have all the movies and TV shows I download on a 500gb drive that plugs into our HD Set Top Box. That works fine.

Transferred all the files to the new 2tb beast and it says "unknown file type".

I discovered the 2tb drive is in NTFS format and I reckon I need it to be in Fat 32, any easy way to do this?

I currently have the drive clean so I don't need to worry about loss of data.

Cheers boys and girls.

right click on drive, click format. it should give you an option as to what file format you want.

What benny the cunt said.

Here is the options I get when I right click to format.



If that helps.

Not Fat32 option, but there is the exFat option which I have tried and no success.

did you google?

try this http://www.online-tech-tips.com/compute ... to-fat-32/

http://www.extend-partition.com/.../convert-ntfs-to-fat32-partition.html

might give you an answer old man Swanky

exFat is basically Fat64 (a step up from Fat32)
Works better for larger drives - although doesn't work with anything before XP from memory. Not sure.

I'd use exFat - let it format - and then test it out on whatever you are playing it from.

lol SwankyVision

David wrote:exFat is basically Fat64 (a step up from Fat32)
Works better for larger drives - although doesn't work with anything before XP from memory. Not sure.

I'd use exFat - let it format - and then test it out on whatever you are playing it from.

OK but what about the "allocation size"??

Just leave it as default