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So you connected a hard drive to Windows XP, you right-clicked on the drive inside “My Computer”, you selected “Format…”, you went to change the “File system” option from NTFS to FAT32, and finally you mashed your head into your monitor because windows is not giving you the option to select FAT32 even though you know you’ve seen it there before.

Don’t fret. I just went through this process moments ago and here is how I got around it:

NOTE: This process will delete all data on your drive!

1. Download fat32format.exe (zip)
Don’t worry, you don’t have to install anything. It’s just a single file standalone utility you’ll use once and delete.
2. Place fat32format.exe in your C:\ folder
3. Right-click on “My Computer” and select “Manage”
4. Click “Disk Management” on the left under “Storage”
5. Right-click on the drive you want formated to FAT32 and select “Delete Partition…”
6. Click “Yes” to delete all partitions
7. Right-click on the same drive and select “New Partition”
8. A wizard will open up, click “Next” to continue
9. Select “Primary Partition”
10. Enter the partition size
11. Choose a drive letter and remember it (for example: “F”)
12. Select “Do not Format this partition”
13. Click finish
14. Open a command prompt (Start menu -> Run… -> type: “cmd” -> Click OK)
15. Type “C:\fat32format F:” and hit enter (where “C” is the drive you placed fat32format.exe in step 2, and “F” is the drive letter you selected in step 11)
16. Type “y” and hit enter
17. Close everything and enjoy your FAT32 drive.

Since people commented about my cat page on my first introductory post, I created a post about a cat page and figured out how to move the cat page comments from my first post to the new cat page post.

For those wanting to know how to move a comment from one entry in WordPress to another entry, here is how to do it.

These instructions work for version 2.3.3 of WordPress. Depending on how much WordPress has changed over the years, this method may or may not work on different versions. You can find out which version of WordPress you have by looking in the footer at the bottom of your admin interface.

First you need access to your WordPress MySQL database. The easiest way is to use MySQL’s web interface, phpMyAdmin. To get to phpMyAdmin, enter your database hostname into the URL field of your browser and press enter. If you happen to be using Dreamhost as your webhost, you can login to their control panel, click “Goodies” from the left side bar, click”Manage MySQL”, locate your WordPress database, and click the phpMyAdmin link under the “Web Administrator” column associated with your WordPress database. You will need to login to phpMyAdmin to access your database. The database username and password you entered when setting up WordPress should work.

If you forgot your WordPress hostname, database username, or database password, you can find them at the top of the file “wp-config.php” in your WordPress directory.

1. Once you’re in phpMyAdmin, select your WordPress database from the database drop down menu on the left.
2. Enter the post table by clicking the link from the left which ends in “_posts”.
3. Click the “Browse” tab at the top of the page that loaded to view the table with all your posts.
4. Locate the post you want the comment moved to and take note of the number in the “ID” column associated with that post.
5. Click the edit icon (looks like a pencil) associated with the post you just found.
6. Scroll down to the bottom and find the field labeled “comment_count”.
7. Increase the number in the field by how many comments you will be moving to that post. For example, if the comment count of that field is “5″ and you will be moving two comments to that post, then change the comment count to “7″.
8. Click the “Go” button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
9. Now locate the table entry for the post you are removing the comment from.
10. Click the edit button associated with that post.
11. Decrease the number in the “comment_count” field by the number of comments you are removing from that post.
12. Click the “Go” button at the bottom of the page to save your changes.
13. Now click the link that ends in “_comments” from the list of database tables on the left.
14. Click “Browse” to bring up the table holding all your comments.
15. Locate the comment you want to move.
16. Click the edit icon associated with that comment.
17. Find the “comment_post_ID” field and change the value in that field with the post ID of the comments new home which I told you to take note of earlier.
18. Click the “Go” button at the bottom of the page to save your changes and you’re done.