Re: fat32 formatting

Maurice Matassa wrote:

I am running WinXPhomeSp2. Recently, I purchased two 250GB HDD'S and
attached them to a HDD controller. However, Windows Partition Wizard
won't let me format any partition larger than 32GB with FAT32. It
insists on using NTFS and I can't use that file format.

If I use FAT32 partitions, I will run out of drive letters (I've got
2 other HDD's on my machine using drive letters up to Q:)

I tried using the command line "format x: /fs:fat32", but at the end
of formatting, it informed me that the drive (50GB) was too big for
FAT32
Is there a way to exceed this 32GB barrier, since I can't use NTFS?


Yes. The barrier is just a barrier to formatting FAT32 partitions larger
than 32MB, not to using them, Just boot from a Windows Me (or other)
diskette and fdisk and format them from there. Windows XP will happily use
the large FAT32 partitions.

Is the reason you can't use NTFS that you are dual booting to a
non-FAT32-aware operating system?

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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