I have 7,500 MP3's.....and I have a question!

[Marquoz]

Originally Posted by silversnake

I'm pretty sure you have to convert it to FAT-32. (try connecting it first without formatting, but i'm pretty sure I tried it and it didn't work so I had to format it). If you are using windows XP, just connect the hard drive, right click on the drive click format, choose FAT-32 wait for it to be finished or if the hard drive is big enough you could also create a FAT-32 partition if you don't want the whole hard drive in FAT-32 for some reason.

If you need any other help, don't hesitate to PM me.

Yes it has to be converted FAT-32. There's a program Swiss Knife that works with Windows XP that allows the larger size HDDs to be formatted. Windows XP won't allow it to be fully formatted FAT-32 because of size issues.

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