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How can i format 1TB Toshiba Canvio portable hard drive to FAT32

  • Anonymous Mar 27, 2014

    Recently installed windows 7. The system does not recognize Toshiba Canvio Portable external hard dtrive

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    missing default software

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Right Click on your new drive in the Computer


Choose a File System (NTFS is ideal most cases) and give the new volume a name if you choose. You might like to call it something like "Portable Drive," or "Removeable Drive." If not, just take the defaults and click "OK."


You will get one last warning that you are about to format your drive and erase all data. Click OK to proceed. When you see the process has reached 100%, you are done and you're new external hard drive is ready to use!

  • dnk1999 Dec 16, 2010

    we want to format in FAT32 not nfts.

  • Jerry Vivada Jul 26, 2014

    Just an FYI. DOS only and windows only recognises up to 2 gig partition. This link will help with the rest http://www.pctechguide.com/hard-disks/fi...

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Windows built-in Disk Mangement cannot format a drive larger than 32 GB, you need to use third party tool to format your 1 TB drive to FAT32. http://www.disk-partition.com/help/format-partition.html

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You can make a 160-200GB partition and format that as a FAT32. You can even make 5 or more partitions of that size and format them all as FAT32, but to format the entire 1TB as a single partition, you must use NTFS or Linex

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I purchased slim II 3.0 and copied my music to it from my Mac Pro. When I connect the USB to my 2014 truck it does not recognize the USB. Is there something I need to do to correct this. My other external drive work and shows up but not this one

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