Hard drive partitioning question

[dragting]

Hello.

I bought a Seagate 500GB Free Agent recently, and it is of course the default NTFS. However, I would like for it to be FAT32 partitioned.

I have already formatted it to FAT32, and as I type this, NTFS is being partitioned. I am doing the partition via Vista's Comptuer Management > Disk Management (so much easier than XP, might I add).

Obviously the FAT32 partition is 32GB, and the NTFS is the remaining amount of space (433.76GB). What I would like is for the FAT32 partition to be bigger than 32GB because I want to back up my PS3 data using the HDD, which only accepts FAT32 and not NTFS. Can this be done?

Please note, I have googled the hell out of this and haven't found much help, which is why I resort to here.

[oracleguy]

The 32GB limitation is not a technical one, it is a marketing limitation that was introduced starting with Windows XP. Basically Microsoft didn't want people to use FAT32 anymore.

Check this out: http://www.nunoxei.com/2008/11/12/formatting-external-drives-with-fat32-in-windows-vista/

Repartition the drive to be one 500GB partition or whatever size you want and that program looks like it will let your format it as FAT32.

[primefalcon]

Just download Ubuntu or such and use gparted to resize the partition you want to whatever size you want.

You can even just have gparted by itself if you want http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

As stated above it's not a technical limitation so.... Just Microsoft wants you to use ntfs