[vox-tech] Reformatting a FAT32 partition

[Richard S. Crawford]

Crud.  My Googling of this problem indicates that this can only be done 
by repartitioning the partition, and even then it isn't 100% reliable.

Hee hee.  Back to parted I go.  Whee!


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> While rebuilding my system, I created a partition that I meant to share 
> between Windows and Linux for the occasional document that *has* to be 
> in MS Word, or the occasional graphic that I just can't figure out how 
> to fix in GIMP.  Originally, I accidentally formatted the partition as 
> FAT32, and got a message from my kernel as I was booting up that said, 
> "Warning -- FAT32 support is still alpha."  Which I knew, of course.
> 
> So now, I'm back in Windows, trying to reformat that partition as FAT 
> instead of FAT32.  Windows says it can't complete the format for some 
> reason.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas why, or how to fix this?

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