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How to Convert an External Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32 on Windows Vista & Windows 7

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Uploaded by on Jul 2, 2011

http://www.tvtrade.ie/320gb-external-hard-drive.html
This video shows you how top convert your external hard drive or USB memory stick from the NTFS file system to the FAT32 file system on windows vista and windows 7. You might commonly need to do this procedure for using an external storage device with your ps3, xbox 360 or in particular to our own industry, in thye case of attaching an external storage device to a PVR ready satellite or terrestrial receiver when the receiver cannot read NTFS drives.

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  • What if it's write protected?

  • @tehTravioli as long as you have admin privilages, you shopuld be able to right click on the drive and go in a modify the premissions on the drive.

  • how do you convert it back??

  • @EPICadventures69 search youtube for How to Format / Convert an External Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32 using EaseUS Partition Master Just select NTFS instead of FAT32 when formatting

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  • it used up way too many space...i see that when formatting it used up about 300G and now I only have about 130 or so gigs left to work with..what went wrong???

  • just so everyone knows

    it works with a 1 TB usb external hard drive

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  • @larune same here, I'm using a 1tb western digital and after I converted it it turned into a hard disk with only 31.9gb, after formatting it twice my drive returned to original size however in the process nearly 850 gb's were consumed leaving me with only 120 to spare. I did this with the intention of using it with my xbox 360 and even after that the xbox tried to reformat it to a 16gb size instead of recognizing it as a external usb drive compatible with it.

  • VERY SIMPLE AND TO THE POINT THANKS

  • Top video, thanks a lot.

  • didnt worktill only lets me use 16 gb on a 320 gb hard drive

  • thanks!!, i can finally watched movies using my usb on the xbox 360, i thought ntfs would be way better, but i guess not

  • @DelosTheRedShadow see comment below about downloading EASEUS Partition Master to do the job for you.

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