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Hello all. I am trying this on a Windows Vista ultimate 32 bit and with multiple cards and have not got a "succesful" one yet. The cards i have tried:
1gb SanDisk class 2
1gb transcend class 2
256 stock card from a blackberry
8gb adata class 6
8gb transcend class 6
2gb kingston and none of the cards seems to have work
tried using a built in sd card read and from the device and neither would work.
for example on the 2gb kingston
I formated with windows to fat32 defaults for everything else
i got the cid which was 02544d534430324738ab7b968d009178 right from mytouch screen.
i used qmat to reverse the cid and got 7891008d967bab3847323044534d5402
so the one I should put in to the site should be 0091008d967bab3847323044534d5402 right?
submited that number for goldcard.img
opened image with hex editor and then card thru the card reader in hex editor with read only uncheck. copied the first 0 to 170 offsets and overwrote the actual disk and saved those changes. Everytime then I removed the card and put back in it asked to format the card. and when I do it from the device and unplug the USB cable it says the sd card is blank or not using a supported format. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong. I think I followed the instructions here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4289899&postcount=1 to the T and with all these cards something else has to be wrong.
If anyone can tell me what I am messing up it would be greatly appreciated
When you run the Hex editor program are you right-clicking and selecting Run as Administrator? If not, try doing that and report back the results. Also, are you copying "up TO 170" or "up THROUGH 170", complety overwriting the 170 line of data? The instructions worked for me using a 2GB Samsung microSD and a memory card reader built into my printer.
Yeh I am doing thru the 0170 not stopping at the beginning. Not doing run as admin but I have uac turned off but I will try that and report back.
still not working at all just does the same thing. No I am lost since there are alot of people that says that it works. I tried a different kingston card with the cid of 02544d534430324735aae24083007754
the reverse is 5477008340e2aa3547323044534d5402 and what i submited was
0077008340e2aa3547323044534d5402
copied over the hex in admin mode to disk after a fresh format at the start of the process remove and reinsert and did the same thing
for those who have done it successfully did you use vista or xp?
i used windows 7 and it worked fine for me.
Windows 7 here as well. Just posted some information about gold cards on the forums. Check out that post, it might help:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4337325#post4337325
When you open the drive in HxD, make sure you open the phyiscal drive and not the logical drive. The physical drives are on the bottom.
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When you open the drive in HxD, make sure you open the phyiscal drive and not the logical drive. The physical drives are on the bottom.
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Egad!
This is what I've been doing wrong the whole time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
IkoRuPT, You rock.
You got me. Doing logical disk not physical disk. Seems like it was a go downloading r3 sdk and will try the rest tomorrow.
Also had the same problem
I also had the same problem until I opened up the HEX editor as Administrator then under the physical drives select your mem. card and do the regular steps of copy and past.
This solved my problem and I hope it solves the problems you all are having.
plazmagog said:
Egad!
This is what I've been doing wrong the whole time.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
IkoRuPT, You rock.
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Another +1 for IkoRuPT, thanks heaps
good stuff
I purchased the G-Tablet because I wanted a way to download photos from my camera's memory, view them, and write them to an external hard drive. The problem I've run into is that I can't get my tablet (running TnT-Lite) to recognize my 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive to mount. I've done a lot of searching for answers, and my first thought was that the drive wasn't receiving enough power, but I've tried it through the docking station and a powered USB hub without any luck. I also reformatted it to Fat32 just to be sure it wasn't the drive format. Sniffer never even notices it's connected.
I'm using TnT-Lite, but am perfectly willing to try other ROMs if they have better external drive support. I'm not super familiar with linux so I haven't tried seeing if I could manually mount the drive, but if someone would be interested in telling me how to see if it's recognized and manually mount it I'm all ears.
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Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
Two things:
Make sure your harddrive format is supported by your kernel. Some kernels like clemsin support ntfs and other formats. I am not really sure what formats does the kernel that comes with tnt lite supports, but i recomend to check or install another kernel.
Second; make sure you connects your HDD to a power source before using it. I have not tried it myself, but i heard that the low power source of the usb port of the g tablet is not enough to supply power to the HDD.
Good luck with that, hope you find a solution to the problem.
Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
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Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
Two things:
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Yes, others have posted similar issues, albeit with different drives/ROMs and little or no followup to troubleshoot the problem and no real solution.
I believe I was very specific in mentioning during the opening post that I tried using external power (via the dock and powered USB hub) and different drive formats.
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Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried having it plugged in via the dock and powered hub before boot, but still no dice.
The best case scenario for me is that someone here has the same drive, overcame this issue and is willing to share their solution. I'm hoping that I can at least find someone who knows enough about linux/ROMs to help me troubleshoot and figure out if this is a hardware, driver or software issue. Maybe the drive is being recognized but the partition isn't getting mounted for some reason? *shrug*
Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
Mantara said:
Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
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Excellent suggestion. Just repartitioned it as (2) 465GB fat32 drives and copied over some test files, plugged the drive into the powered USB hub, plugged that into the G-tablet, booted...and at first I thought it didn't work. Then an hour later I look at my tablet and realize it's mounted! I can see the image file I was using to test it...except the image (png) doesn't open. I try moving it to the SDCard using iFileManager and it errors.
...so on the up side, the drive mounted. On the down side, there may still be some issues.
You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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Is my opening post that difficult to read? Pretty sure I said it's a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex.
not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
Moved to general.
I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks
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not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
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It seemed to me that troubleshooting problems with ROMs not correctly mounting drives fell under development along with the ROM being used.
As for snapping at people, maybe I wasn't as appreciative of their effort as I should have been, but I felt like people were replying without even reading the opening post where I had tried hard to explain the situation in detail. It's like taking your car to a mechanic and telling him it's making a clunking sound, then receiving a call from them later saying, "Yeah, we took a look and there seems to be a clunking sound."
you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
rover442 said:
I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
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Hey rover442. I'm thrilled to have gotten it to mount and, hopefully if we work together, we can figure out how to get everything working properly. To recap, here's what I did to get it to mount:
Delete the existing partition using Windows Disk Management
Create two new partitions (under 500GB)
Format those partitions using fat32format
Plug the drive into the tablet via a powered usb hub
Reboot
Wait an undefined amount of time for it to magically mount
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you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
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I've tried all of them, but when it finally mounted I noticed it in Sniffer then was able to access it using iFileManager.
Ok gaines. I'll reformat the drive and partition it and see what happens. Thanks!
Gaines, I made two partitions. I put an mp3 in each partition. Loaded it into G Tab and it sees one of the partitions and the mp3. It does not see the other partition. FTR, I am not using a powered USB, just plugging straight into the G. (formatted fat 32 on the external hard drive).
Success
Ok here's what I did to make things work in FAT 32
I downloaded a partition software called EASEUS Partition master Home. It was free. I fromatted again the whole 1TB hard drive (931GB available). here are the following tests I did:
Partition 431GB successfully seen in G Tab
Partition 531GB successfully seen in G Tab
So since I broke the 500GB threshold I tried to partition 631GB and it was good. So then I just repartitioned for the whole 931GB available and it is now being seen in Sniffer and Root Explorer. So it's fine.
However, the G Tab still cannot recognize NTFS.
You need a kernel that supports ntfs. Android does not recognise ntfs natively
I just recently bought a new 128 GB Kingston SSD. I have an Alienware M14x R1. My plan is to use the SSD as the primary boot drive and use the current HDD (Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB Hybrid Drive) as a secondary storage drive by replacing the optical disc drive with the Seagate HHDD.
Is there anyway to migrate Windows to the SSD without having to re-install everything? Some of the applications I have right now probably cannot be installed again because I'll reach the license key limit. That's why I'd prefer to just simply migrate everything over. But that's going to be about 500 GB of data to migrate over.
Or is the performance of the Seagate Hybrid Drive good enough that I don't necessarily need to use the SSD as a primary boot drive and I can use that as the secondary storage. Perhaps even in a RAID setup?
Thanks for the advice and suggestions!
I suggest you to install a fresh copy of Windows on the SSD. Also install all programs you can install again on it. Doing that will ensure you don't have any align problems due to the migration (which can decrease performance).
And then you can keep the programs you can't reinstall again on the secondary drive, which would be the Seagate.
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I suggest you to install a fresh copy of Windows on the SSD. Also install all programs you can install again on it. Doing that will ensure you don't have any align problems due to the migration (which can decrease performance).
And then you can keep the programs you can't reinstall again on the secondary drive, which would be the Seagate.
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For the programs that I leave behind on the Seagate Hybrid Drive, would I still be able to run them while booted into the fresh copy of Windows? A lot of those programs were not designed to be "portable" because they have all these registry attachments and similar dependencies. Is it really as simply as just launching those programs using their EXE files without booting up the Windows installation on the hybrid drive?
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For the programs that I leave behind on the Seagate Hybrid Drive, would I still be able to run them while booted into the fresh copy of Windows? A lot of those programs were not designed to be "portable" because they have all these registry attachments and similar dependencies. Is it really as simply as just launching those programs using their EXE files without booting up the Windows installation on the hybrid drive?
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It really depends on the programs. However, the vast majority of software licenses have no issues with reinstalling on the same machine. In certain cases reactivation might be tricky but then you can just phone/email support and tell them the situation. I've had to do this a few times (with e.g. NCP VPN client) and they're always very helpful.
Been really frustrated the past few days with the amount of times my surface has become deathly slow/unresponsive and crashes (restarts).
When I say unresponsive or slow I mean when you try left to right swipe to multi task it doesn't do it or the animation is really slow. similarly opening charms bar doesn't work or pressing windows button doesnt do anything.
A lot of times, 90% of the time the only thing I'm using is IE and bing.
Just now crashed/rebooted and saw a message on desktop
Windows created a temporary paging file on your computer because of a problem that occurred with your paging file configuration when you started your computer. The total paging file size for all disk drives may be somewhat larger than the size you specified.
When you click OK it loads Performance Options window and the virtual memory is set to 448 MB
I have never configured this before. What should it be set to?
Getting quite frustrated. Been happy using this device for months now without any such problems.
Right now, I'm pretty much guaranteed a crash or suffer extreme performance issues when loading a single a youtube page. ie becomes unresponsive even after closing the tab swiping up or down may or may not work. tapping windows haptic button doesnt show start screen, pressing lock button does not immediately turn off screen.
448 MB is the same size as the paging file on my Surface RT. In practice, despite heavy use of things like third-party desktop apps and games, I've almost never needed it. I keep a relatively large number of tabs open in IE - it's using 236MB right now, by far the largest of any given program although spread across multiple processes - and have never had the issues you describe, either.
I suspect your Surface may be defective. It's possible that there's some bad RAM - on x86 I'd tell you to run memcheck - or that your Flash memory (SSD) is defective and this is messing up the pagefile. Either one would be covered under warranty.
Are you running low on free space on ssd?
Could possibly be a bum app. I can't recall the app but my RT got very flaky after loading an app from the store and required a wipe to get back to normal.
Yes last night as I was attempting to record the situation with my phone for a youtube post. I noticed I had like 150MB free space. So I immediately removed 2 apps which free'd up about 1GB. It was late and I was mad, and needed to go to bed, but I suspect that was the main problem. And I'll know for sure when I get home from work today.
As I recall the windows folder contained about 7GB and my program data folder also had about 7G, My Documents and downloads is <100MB so that's not anything to worry about, and recycle bin is empty.
32GB is supposed to work out to around 29 something after marketing math right? So then between those two folders, <15GB is utilized and so lets say 4GB for recovery partition (I think its a little less if I remember) that's 19... so where's the other 10?
I am definitely going to delete the backup partition after I make a backup on a usb drive or something. Any other tricks to free up space? Disk clean up is only really good for about 50MB.
I wish there was an app in the market place kind of like TreeSize Free, would be handy for us Surface RT folks.
My device is having absolutely the same issue. Must be a bad update.
The 32GB Surface RT OS install footprint is something like 7GB or so. Add in the recovery partition and you end up with a lot less than 32GB available. This was actually published info (and MS took a beating over it).
Part of the large install footprint is due to things like Office being included. You really can't compare it to Android or iOS, either; Windows RT has things like Powershell and Management Console and tons of other power-user / admin stuff. It's intended to be usable for a lot more than just a platform to launch apps on, which is most of what you get from Android or iOS. Love it or hate it, that's the way it is.
Stick an microSD card in the slot and move anything that can be moved over onto it. Definitely also copy off the recovery partition and then recover the space it was using up.
So as I mentioned last night I removed a couple of apps for 1gb of space. Then I guess there was a system update and now I'm back down to like 500MB. I deleted a couple more apps and somehow I'm down to 400MB.
I'm still getting this ****ty behavior. Not quite as bad as it was, but still not an experience I would recommend to anyone.
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Yes last night as I was attempting to record the situation with my phone for a youtube post. I noticed I had like 150MB free space. So I immediately removed 2 apps which free'd up about 1GB. It was late and I was mad, and needed to go to bed, but I suspect that was the main problem. And I'll know for sure when I get home from work today.
As I recall the windows folder contained about 7GB and my program data folder also had about 7G, My Documents and downloads is <100MB so that's not anything to worry about, and recycle bin is empty.
32GB is supposed to work out to around 29 something after marketing math right? So then between those two folders, <15GB is utilized and so lets say 4GB for recovery partition (I think its a little less if I remember) that's 19... so where's the other 10?
I am definitely going to delete the backup partition after I make a backup on a usb drive or something. Any other tricks to free up space? Disk clean up is only really good for about 50MB.
I wish there was an app in the market place kind of like TreeSize Free, would be handy for us Surface RT folks.
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Did you manage to get more space?
As you say, we have 29 GB on SSD. 4 GB is in restore and EFI partitions leaving us with 25GB.
If I select everything in C:/ it takes 12 GB. I have 9 GB free. So I have 25 GB - 12 GB - 9 GB = 4GB of unkown space. The page file is ~2 GB on my surface leaving me with 2 GB of unkown space. If this where a Windows 8 machine I would say that those 2 GB was used for hibernating but I don't think that Windows RT has hibernating enabled.
Maybe Properties in Explorer isn't 100% accurate.
When you used Disk clean, did you also clean System files? Update backups can get large.
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Did you manage to get more space?
As you say, we have 29 GB on SSD. 4 GB is in restore and EFI partitions leaving us with 25GB.
If I select everything in C:/ it takes 12 GB. I have 9 GB free. So I have 25 GB - 12 GB - 9 GB = 4GB of unkown space. The page file is ~2 GB on my surface leaving me with 2 GB of unkown space. If this where a Windows 8 machine I would say that those 2 GB was used for hibernating but I don't think that Windows RT has hibernating enabled.
Maybe Properties in Explorer isn't 100% accurate.
When you used Disk clean, did you also clean System files? Update backups can get large.
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That 2GB is probably in folders that you don't have read access to by default (Ex. WindowsApps)
If I try to press the button for clean system files, 1GB in error reporting, 500MB temporary files, 400MB windows update cleanup, some other misc stuff so 2.01in total... after cleaning I only had 1.38 free, wtf is up with this math. I already had 450MB free... deleting 2GB should have netted me 2.4GB, not 1.38
I got a message earlier saying it couldn't activate windows, it seemed fix itself.
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If I try to press the button for clean system files, 1GB in error reporting, 500MB temporary files, 400MB windows update cleanup, some other misc stuff so 2.01in total... after cleaning I only had 1.38 free, wtf is up with this math. I already had 450MB free... deleting 2GB should have netted me 2.4GB, not 1.38
I got a message earlier saying it couldn't activate windows, it seemed fix itself.
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Didn't Windows reserve more MB to page file?
I have totally 14GB of files ( Including page file and system folders ). However Surface reports that I have only 2GB free instead if 14 ( 28-14=14). I did disk clean-up for all users and I manually cleared some data... I can't even do a refresh because I don't have enough free space.
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I have totally 14GB of files ( Including page file and system folders ). However Surface reports that I have only 2GB free instead if 14 ( 28-14=14). I did disk clean-up for all users and I manually cleared some data... I can't even do a refresh because I don't have enough free space.
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I'm guessing that it's because what netham45 said. We don't have read access to folders like WindowsApps. You have some huge games or something like that installed?
I think you need to try "refresh" your Surface. If this happen again then it maybe defected.
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I'm guessing that it's because what netham45 said. We don't have read access to folders like WindowsApps. You have some huge games or something like that installed?
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Not really. I checked my apps and they are taking around 3.5GB all together. Still I'm missing a lot.
I can't refresh as I don't have free space. Looks like I need to totally reinstall.
Hi, I found 10GB sitting in C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
Seems that clean-up wizard does not clean those.
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I have cleaned up this directory for the two user I have and I gained 13GB free space.
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Hi, I found 10GB sitting in C:\Users\USER NAME\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
Seems that clean-up wizard does not clean those.
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I have cleaned up this directory for the two user I have and I gained 13GB free space.
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Did your tablet fine now? Or still slow or crashing?
With 1.48GB free, YouTube is still crashing me and making my tablet unresponsive.
I checked C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC
Properties on this folder says 4.8 GB. But inside are only 2 folders, Microsoft and Temp, properties for those 2 folders says 3.18MB...
Control Panel> Folder Options> View has show hidden folders enabled
If I type \inetcache it will open the folder for me and properties for all docs in folder shows 1.49G
If I try to del C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Local\Packages\windows_ie_ac_001\AC\INetCache
It prompts yes or no, but then I get access denied.
In the desktop though I could select all and shift delete, to free up MOST of those files. but there's still 2.87GB hidden somewhere when I view properties of the AC folder.
I looked at some of the contents and these folders and its just like thumbails, js files, various cache (obviously as folder name implies)
I've resorted to deleting 2 more infrequently used games, so now I have 2.26GB free... haven't yet removed backup partition.
Files shouldnt cause the tablet to lock up like that, plenty of room left for the page file there.
I think your device is most likely faulty. Vendor should replace.
Hello,
I desperately wish I could use another filesystem (exFAT, NTFS, etc) but I need my external HDD to be readable from my Amazon Fire TV box, Android phone/tablet, and hopefully iOS devices (though the latter is less of an issue if this won't work). From everything I've read, the ONLY file system that can be read by all of these is FAT32. I've tried on my Android phone/tablet using other options like NTFS and even using premium apps, I could get the drive to mount but nothing could be read. I only include this information but I know FAT32 isn't the best option and people will rightfully share that with me but sadly, it's the only option I have in this case.
I also know that while 2TB should be the max that FAT32 can handle, there are several people who have successfully gotten around that. If needed, I can share links to a post talking about that. However, what no one can seem to share is how to actually do that? Do I need to change the disk sector size? I've tried using multiple different software including AOMEI Partition Assistant, EaseUS Partition Master, and MiniTool Partition Wizard, obviously Windows built in (useless), and one or two others whose names escape me at the moment and, although most of them advertise that they can handle FAT32 partitions larger than 2TB, I can find no info on how to actually use them to accomplish this. Is GParted able to do this without problems? Is there any other program that can? Can anyone please share what I need to do to accomplish this? I know I have to have GPT rather than MBR but I don't know what else I need to do.
Thanks so much in advance! I truly appreciate any tips or advice you can share! Take care!!
Open a command window by going to Start, then Run and typing in CMD.
Now type in the following command at the prompt:
format /FS:FAT32 X:
Replace the letter X with the letter of your external hard drive in Windows. Windows will go ahead and begin formatting the drive in FAT32!
Format external hard drive fat32
There seems to also be an issue when using the command line besides the size limit problem. Namely, it can take forever to format the hard drive for some users. Not sure why, but I’ve seen it enough times and it can be very frustrating to wait 5 hours and then have the whole format fail.
As I know the snap-in disk management could not support formating partition from NTFS to FAT 32 when it is larger than 32 GB, if you want do that, you could use some partition software, such as Partition Assistant, GParted, and etc, btw, from your post it mentioned Acronis Disk Director, unquestionable, it is a powerful partition software, however, it need cost too much.
This should be possible with gparted, as long as the sector size of your hard disk is greater than 512 Byte. If not, 2TB will be the limit with Fat32.