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How to format an external USB or FireWire hard drive as FAT32 in Windows
Western Digital has a Windows based utility that will reformat a Western Digital external USB or FireWire hard drive back to the factory default FAT32 partition. When run, this utility can only create a single FAT32 partition for the full capacity of the hard drive. Please follow the directions below to download and use the Western Digital FAT32 formatting utility.
1 - Download the ExtFat32.msi file to your desktop. 2 - Double-click on the file named ExtFat32.msi and follow the onscreen prompts to install this program onto the computer.  3 - Check the box labeled I accept this License Agreement and click Next.  4 - Select the hard drive that is to to formatted and click on Start, OK, and then Next. Important: All data on the target hard drive will be erased during this process. Please remove or backup any valuable data before performing this step.:  |
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