NTFS back to FAT32... Impossible??

Hi Guys,

I am about to rip the rest of my hair out trying to find a solution to this issue, basically for months now I have been using a 16GB USB Thumb Drive to copy movies off my PC onto this device, and then plug it into my XBOX 360s to watch movies via the XBOX, however, it means I have to plug and unplug the device too often to watch newer movies, and for some odd reason it takes forever to copy onto this 16GB USB thumb drive device, I get, at best, 4MB a sec, on a good day, so you can imagine how long it takes to copy just one movie to it that's 1.4GB in size...

So I went out and bought myself a brand new Western Digital Elements 1TB hard drive and filled it up with a heap of my movies, hwoever, plugging it into the xbox proved fruitless, as it wont even see it, then I was informed that the XBOX cannot read or see NTFS drives, so I tried formatting this 1TB USB drive, however, it only has options for NTFS file system or exnts or something, no FAT32... So I went to western digitals site to see if I could find a fix or solution their, however no real luck, they do have a fat32 formatter thingy majigi, but when I try using it, it crashes during install of the software, I am thinking its because of Windows 8 Pro that I am now using, so I hooked it up to a Windows 7 Ultimate machine, again same issue, but the software does say for windows 2000 and XP only.. So I was wandering if their is any other formatting tools out their that can make it possible to get my 1TB external hard drive to format in FAT32 so my XBOX360 picks it up as a portable device and I can then watch movies directly from it, like I do with the 16GB USB thumb drive?

Kindest Regards,

David Giles
NT, Australia

 

I normally use G parted for this sort of thing- http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
Just make a boot disk from the ISO file and start your computer up with it.

There may be issues formatting a 1TB drive to FAT32.

 

According to this page you can format up to 2TB drives in FAT32.
He recommends using partition magic but G parted will do the same job and it's free.