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Bizarre errors trying to format 1Tb drive FAT32
I've just bought a Hitachi TOURO 1TB USB3 portable drive as additional storage for my HUMAX FOXSAT HDR.
The FOXSAT wants the drive to be FAT32 or EXT3, so I tried to format it FAT32 on my Win7 PC.
When I right clicked the drive, and tried to format, I was offered only NTFS or exFAT. So I resorted to the FORMAT command.
When the drive was plugged into my spare USB3 port, the format failed almost immediately, saying that the drive had become unavailable or invalid.
So I tried it in a USB2 port (the FOXSAT has only USB2 ports). I tried a FORMAT /Q and was told that the drive was too large for FAT32...
So, now I'm running a full format with FORMAT K: /FS:FAT32 and it has done about 5% in nearly half an hour.
What are my chances that this format will work? And what's that "too large" all about?