Format Large Drives as FAT32 in Windows

Have any of you ever purchased a drive larger than 32GB that you wanted to be able to plug into a Mac, Windows, and Linux machine at anytime, being able to both read and write on all of them? Did you ever try to format such a drive in Windows, simply to find out that Windows only permits formatting large drives as NTFS, which is not always writable outside of Windows?

I recently experienced this problem, so I decided to find a way to make Windows format my 120GB drive as FAT32, which basically any platform can read from and write to. A bit of searching pointed me to Ridgecrop Consultants.

They have provided a simple, fast, and efficient application which will format any size drive as FAT32 in Windows. You can download it here.

Once you download the file, extract the fat32format.exe file from the archive and put it someplace easy to remember, like C:\. Then open up a command prompt (Click Start > Run... and type cmd in the box). Navigate to the location where you extracted the program and type something like:

fat32format d:

Where d: is the Windows drive letter of the drive you want to format. A couple seconds later you should have a fully FAT32 formatted drive!

Source: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm