I have a 4TB WD Elements HD that i would like to use on my wii for gamecube and wii backups but I don't know the best way to make it happen. I had a 1TB formatted to FAT32 and everything was all good. Just needed more space for things. Is there any was to get the whole HD to FAT32 or should I partition it? I have never partitioned a HD before and I don't know which should be primary and if the other partition should be NTFS or both FAT32. I recently modded my a wii I picked up for $5 so all of this is still pretty new to me.
I tried the guiformat but it partitioned the drive and had an error, then my computer wouldnt recognize it. I had to go to the disk manager and delete the volume then convert it to gtp or gpt, whichever one it was. And I just tried the minitool partition wizard and its limiting the FAT32 size at 2Tb also.
Hello, Windows cannot format drives and partitions larger than 32GB in FAT32. With some third party partition tool, you can break this limit. But they normally can't help you create a FAT32 partition larger than 2TB.
FAT32 is limited to 2TB on a 512 byte sector size. The sector size is hardcoded in the HDD and can't be changed. Most likely you won't need more than 2TB for Wii/GC (actually even 500GB should be plenty if you don't download shovelware), so you can have the second partition as NTFS and use it for other things.
