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Old 18th August 2011
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Very odd. I guess once something is NTFS, it won't let you change it. You could always zero out the MBR sector with dd ... no, wait, I guess you can't.

You can always use a command window and the Windows format command.

Start...Run....cmd if you've never used a command line on Windows before. You will get a text based window containing a command line prompt.

Use format /? to get a description of the command and its options and operands. /FS:<filesystem> is the operand of specific interest. FAT32 is the filesystem type you are looking for.

This command should change the MBR partition table while formatting. If it works at all.

Last edited by jggimi; 18th August 2011 at 04:28 PM.
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