Ok i remember reading in another HDD upgrade thread about people having problems formatting their external USB drives to FAT32 of a decent size partition (Windoze only lets you format max of 32GB partitions by default)
So i just thought i'd post a very quick (and free) way of making any size FAT32 partition you want without having to use expensive software like Partition Magic etc
1) Connect the drive to your computer. Once it is recognized goto Start -> Run and type "diskmgmt.msc" press enter and the disk management utility runs
2) In the list of drives should be the drive that you want to use. If there are already partitions on there you may want to delete them (if you dont have any data you want to keep). If so right-click on each partition and choose "delete volume". Then right-click and create one big partition and make sure it has been assigned a drive letter (e.g "j:" or "g:" etc). If not then right-click and assign it one. Remember this drive letter for later
3) Download fat32format.exe from
here and extract it to somewhere like "c:\"
4) Open a dos prompt, go to c:\ and type "fat32format
driveletter:" where
driveletter is the drive letter you remembered from step 2
5) The entire partition will then be formatted into FAT32 with no silly 32GB limit
Of course if your drive manufacturer provides a free util then you can use that, but not all do, and i remember some poor chap saying he was stuck with loads of 32GB partitions on his 500gb usb hdd! lol
PS: Mac users... yes we know!