How To create msdosfs on HD?

[Bobby Walker]

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On Apr 29, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> Rod Person wrote:
>> On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 <fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with  
>>> fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file  
>>> system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because  
>>> it's not USB aware. Is there any FBSD command or port I can use to  
>>> reformat the UFS hard drive with msdosfs?
>>> _______________________________________________
>> Why can't you format it in XP since you connected it to XP?
> Because like I say in the first part of post you snipped out that xp  
> does not assign a drive letter to it.
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In XP the drive should be visible in the disk manager via  
administration tools.  It'll assign a drive letter after you you do a  
fat32 or ntfs format on either a single partition or the entire drive.