Hi my drive will only format as fat, i need it to load xp on it, am i doing something wrong?

U probalby is using windows XP or something like that wich can only format ur pendrive as "FAT" file system wich have max 4GB capacity per file, in order to fix your problem you need an external software for formating ur pendrive or use win 7 if you have win 7 just backup your data and format the pendriver and where it says " File system" will come with "FAT" as standard just click and select "NTFS" format it and be happy^^

Windows XP has limitations on recognising too large NTFS disks. One of the solutions would be to format the entire disk as FAT32 or make a partition and format that as FAT32.

The FAT format is easier to recover data from if things go wrong, but if you insist on making it NTFS, all you have to do is right click the drive, choose FORMAT and then specify NTFS as the format.
WARNING!!! This WILL ERASE all the data on the drive so back it up first!

my computer> right click on the terabyte> select format> make sure u change the option of ntfs to fat 32

First of all I have to ask why you are trying to load FAT32 instead of NTFS. NTFS is the preferred file system for all Operating Systems after Windows 2000. Also, you cannot format the hard drive through the Windows XP installation for larger than a 32 GB partition. If you need a larger partition, I suggest using a floppy drive with the3 WinME bootdisk loaded on it. You can get it here:
Try the WinMe bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

If the above is not the issue than we can move forward with other solutions.

Good Luck,

NOLA Tech

did you format the drive? and what in? ntfs? quick? full? FAT 32 ? cause you need to go back and run a FAT 32 format to every get xp to load on that machine

If you really must have fat 32 (maybe for MAC use ?) then windows itself does not support doing a fat format on large drives.

However there is a fix Yup thats why they call it FIXYA

Here is a link to just what you need

Hope its what you need and good luck

hi whaT FORMAT DID YOU DO, FAT FAT 32 NT
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If you formatted it with fdiask it wont install on a fat format.

To reformat the card so the Nikon Coolpix can use it you can use the DOS command 'format' e.g. format g: HOWEVER the default DOS format is FAT32 which the Coolpix will not read. The SD card needs to be formatted in FAT.

Open a DOS command window and type:

Format 'volume' /fs:FAT

Where 'Volume' is the drive letter to be formatted. On my PC this was 'G'. This may be different on your PC. Make sure it isn't an internal drive e.g. C or D!

e.g. format g: /fs:FAT

The card then works OK on the CoolPix