Right-click on your external hard drive and select Shrink Volume. Use the wizard to create a partition with the NTFS or FAT32 file system. Right-click in the unallocated space on the initialized disk and select New Simple Volume. Select the MBR or GPT partition table format and click OK to create a partition table for the disk. The Windows Search Box is the magnifying button icon in the bottom-left corner of your screen. Right-click it and select Initialize Disk.
Open the Windows search box, type diskmgmt.msc, and hit enter. But disappointingly, format utility built-in Windows 7,Windows 8, Windows 10, and other Windows OS limits FAT32 partition size to 32GB while third-party partitioning tool could help create or format a very large FAT32 partition.
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I’m surprised no one has mentioned the phenomenon in regards to external drive transient disconnect due to transient faults like power spike or failures or a simple wall wart unplugging – we’re not talking encrypted drives here – I just want to dialog box to not appear at all or be intercepted by a service and killed before it even shows up on the desktop – after all, when it happens, a power off and on of the drive is usually all it takes, worst case scenario, a computer reboot followed by a disk scan. How to Partition an External Drive in Windows 10.
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