Topic: fat32format on Vista/Win7?

[SmokinJoe]

Someone must have crossed this bridge, I can't be the first...

I've been using fat32format on my R4 with 80gb drive for 4+ years.  The computer I used was XP and it worked great.  That computer died, so I'm using another one which happens to be windows Vista.  When I try to run fat32format it says "access denied".

On Vista (and Win 7 I believe) when you want to get into anything system related I get the popup which says "please verify that you want to do this".  I presume the fact that I didn't do that is preventing fa32format from doing it's job.  Maybe I have to use a "runas" or something?  If someone has a Linux command, that's fine too.

I'm headed off to Gathering of the Vibes festival.  I'll check back in a few days to see if anyone has ideas.  For today I just deleted all the files and folders.

[fleish]

Someone must have crossed this bridge, I can't be the first...

I've been using fat32format on my R4 with 80gb drive for 4+ years.  The computer I used was XP and it worked great.  That computer died, so I'm using another one which happens to be windows Vista.  When I try to run fat32format it says "access denied".

On Vista (and Win 7 I believe) when you want to get into anything system related I get the popup which says "please verify that you want to do this".  I presume the fact that I didn't do that is preventing fa32format from doing it's job.  Maybe I have to use a "runas" or something?  If someone has a Linux command, that's fine too.

I'm headed off to Gathering of the Vibes festival.  I'll check back in a few days to see if anyone has ideas.  For today I just deleted all the files and folders.

I think that means you're not running as an administrator. Try finding it in explorer and right clicking it and selecting run as and authenticating as an administrator.

Curious why you don't just use the R4's built-in software utility to format the drive?

[fmaderjr]

This worked for me in Windows 7:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

I needed to reformat an external drive to fat32 to work with a DVD player with USB port that plays avi files.