Fat32 Formatter.exe Download

[Lorri Winterhalter]

You can download either just the fat32format binary 20K or the fat32format binary and source 30K The source code can be compiled with Vistual Studio 6.0 or later. The current version number is 1.01.


There are a couple of things you need to know before running fat32format. You need to have Administrator rights on XP for it to work, since it opens the drive in raw write mode. You also need to make sure that there are no open files on the volume - if there are you will see a message like this -



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fat32format works with Vista. The UI has changed a bit when creating drives and UAC makes the whole process a bit more cumbersome. To create drive letters, Right Click on My Computer and Select Manage. UAC prompts you to escalate privileges, do so. You can right click on empty drives and Initialize them. Once you've done that you can create new volumes by right clickingon them and selecting New Simple Volume. Fast formatting them with NTFS is quick and should detect a completely dead drive.


If you have Vista there is a quick way to get an Admin cmd prompt. Click the Start button/ Windows flag inthe bottom left of the screen and enter cmd like on XP but press Ctrl+Shift+Enter, you'll get a privilege escalationdialog click OK and you end up with an Admin command prompt, helpfully labelled as Administrator: C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe This is the best way to run fat32format. It's always been Admin only, it's just that on XP most power users ran with Admin rights all the time.


1.02

A couple of people asked me about 64K cluster size. There are compatibility problems with this, as 16 bit set up programs sometimes assume that the cluster size will fit in a 16 bit integer. When calculating disk space, they thus end up with a value of zero. Fat32format disables cluster sizes bigger than 32K for this reason. However, some people need this, so the current version has the check disabled. You still need to force the cluster size by hand though, e.g. fat32format -c128 f:

1.03

Fixes for making partitions created above sector 0xffff bootable, and a cosmetic fix for the drive size printout when formatting drives bigger than 1TB ( 0x7fffffff sectors )

1.04

Fix for "Failed to set partition info". Some drives have no partition table, so you can't set the the partition type.

It was possible to set the cluster size too high resulting in too few clusters, or too high resulting in too many -fat32 must have between 2^16 and 2^28 clusters because of various compatibility considerations. Added code to check that.

Fixed an error where it crashes if people use /? to get help

1.05

Added support for bytes per sector values of other than 512

1.07

GPT support, fix for boot sector when using Windows AIK's bootsect.exe, FSCTL_ALLOW_EXTENDED_DASD_IO






While LPChip's answer is 'correct' and should work in most cases unless the partition is over 32gb. I typically use a bit of third party software from ridgecrop that does the same thing but handles larger partitions. I've used their command line fat32formatter extensively over the past few years.


You can use the following FAT32 formatter to FAT32 format USB drives larger than 32GB with a FAT32 file system from within Windows. This free fat32 formatter windows 10 will force a FAT32 format on drives of any size up to 2TB, automatically adjusting the partition to fit the space. Yes, even when the volume is larger than the 32GB limit imposed by Windows.


You can get the GUI version of this free utility directly from the authors by clicking on the image from the project page.

Download the Free FAT32 formatter

You can also Download the command line version to fat32 format USB drives. The command line version enables you to pass variables to the tool using commands or batch scripts. Since it is Open Source, it's even possible to integrate the tool into your own projects.


If you find this particular fat32 formatting tool useful, you might also want to check out the BOOTICE utility which can also be used to easily format external USB flash drives, pendrives, thumb drives and micro sd cards.






yeah images are the way to go. you can put acronis on the sardu bootable along with hirens, break win 7 or ANY other images of systems with acronis down to 700mb pieces to all fit on fat32, all on one jumpdrive. #nasty


I tried Samsung 256gb, which work just fine in Wyze Cam v2, but the new v3 just flat would not accept it. I even formatted it FAT32 using fat32format.exe utility ( -Disk-Utils/FAT32format.shtml) and it still would not take it.

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