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JSI Tip 8858. When you attempt to format a MO disk with FAT32 in Windows 2000, you receive 'Windows was unable to complete the format'?
Jerold Schulman
December 30, 2004
1 Min Read
The subject problem occurs because Windows was unable to read the FAT32 partition table on the Magneto-Optical disk, possibly because of any of the following:
The disk was previously formatted by a non-Microsoft operating system.
The file system on the MO disk uses 2048 byte sectors.
The MO disk is already formatted as FAT32.
To workaround this problem:
1. Format the MO disk with NTFS.
2. Format the MO disk with FAT32.
NOTE: The following MO media sizes may experience this problem:
640 megabytes (MB)1.3 gigabytes (GB)2.3 gigabytes (GB)About the Author
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