Partition Magic
This was a timely article as I just set up a spare system to use to recover data from hard drives. I put a spare 500GB hard drive in and I wanted to format the entire drive as FAT-32. I tried using Partition Magic and it only does FAT-32 out to about 160GB. You can create multiple 160GB partitions and then merge them, but you have to assign a folder to the other partitions on the first one. Cumbersome. I used to keep a Win 98 machine around to format larger FAT-32 drives, but that is also cumbersome. This utility is great and worked well for me. I need the drive as FAT-32 so I can access it if I have to boot to DOS to do the recovery. I'm still pissed at MS for arbitrarily limiting my ability to use FAT-32 as I see the need. I'm well aware of the benefits of NTFS and that is my standard on Win systems. I don't need MS to protect me from myself. They can easily add a message box explaining the benefits of NTFS over FAT-32 if one tries to use it.
I, too forgot about the HP utility mentioned below.
