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Format large Fat32 volumes in Panther
Authored by: dimjaguar on Jan 20, '07 04:00:58PM

This tip didn't work for me. The "s#" suffix number was different for me, some other stuff went wrong, but anyway I didn't investigate much further.

I CAME HERE because I was a bit too slow to figure out how Disk Utility was supposed to do it and eventually concluded it couldn't do MS DOS/FAT format... I kept clicking on my volume (which was the problem) and it didn't give the option to format with MS-DOS, the FAT32 option.

If anyone else is as peculiarly challenged as me and thinks there isn't much of a difference between Disks and Volumes, know that in order to format large FAT32 disks, you have to click on the *Disk*, which is the mother node that says "##.# GB QAZWSX123 Media", not the Volume below it, with your much more euphonic volume label on it. And voila, there's the MS DOS option. And a lot of other things I was missing.

Hope this helps.



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