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How to Format a 1Tb ext USB drive to Fat32 not exfat or NTFS

This is for a friend...

In Win 10 I Right click > Format and I only see NTFS (Default) and exfat.
No Fat32 there

I can get access to a Mac but Im not famaliar with Macs
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Just format to NTFS. After that, in an administrative cmd window:

convert d: /fs:fat32

Obviously, adjust d: if the USB drive is another drive letter
Windows 10 does not offer some options previously offered for disk formatting in the GUI.  In particular the file systems and cluster sizes are either restricted or unavailable.  All the choices are available, however, at the command level.
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Ok, Its formatting slowly and looking good so fat 30%

Thank god Im not scared of command line ...
for such tasks, you can use diskpart also   https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10

i have used it on many occasions, and it comes in very handy
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Update ...

DISK part - I like the ap ...
Volume too large - refuses to quick or without quick fate 32

Kimputer ...
convert d: /fs:fat32
Error ... Convert is not available for NTFS Drives

Converted it to exFAt and got
Error ... Convert is not available for exFat Drives

Becoming a bit of a effort this ...

Could try to make a small partition of less than 32 gigs on fat 32 and then extend it with disk part

Someone suggested some ap that can be ised on a mac NTFS for Mac or something ? is it free? - ;last resort I think
You can use minitool partition wizard its a free utility.  Can't provide the url right now ...but google knows where to get it.
EDS - it is no app - it's built into Windows since long ago
what command did you use to get  the volume error?
fixes here :  https://www.disk-partition.com/diskpart/vitual-disk-service-error-the-volume-size-is-too-big.html