format hard drive (fat)

I have a 250gb USB hard drive I would like to format with fat, how can
I do this?
I would do this on windows, but it will only let me do up to 32gb with
fat, and I don't want to use ext2/3 ect. but I would like to use it on
windows, linux, and sometimes mac.
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