Re: Formatting HDD partitions for WinXP & Win98?
- From: John John <audetweld@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 21:55:35 -0300
Teflon wrote:
On Apr 1, 11:49 am, John John <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Teflon wrote:
On Apr 1, 11:07 am, John John <audetw...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes that will work fine but Windows 98 can read and write to much larger
drives than 2GB. The built in Windows XP disk utility will allow you to
format FAT32 drives up to 32GB and Windows 98 will be able to use all of
it. Windows 98 can format FAT32 up to 127 or 128GB.
John
Gman wrote:
I would like to have the ability to connect and use an external USB
connected HDD on either a Win98SE machine or a WinXP Pro machine, not
shared and not at the same time. (Use it as a large file transfer
device - hook to one and then to the other.)
To do this, I am thinking I could create a 2GB partition (maximum size
Win98 can handle?) on the HDD, format it to FAT32 and have the
remaining HDD space in a second partition formatted to NTFS.
Would that work? If not, is there another way?
Also, is this the place to ask this type of question? If not, sorry.- Hide quoted text -
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Thank you Doug and John for your responses.
Would this dual partition scenario also work with a Win98 FE machine
that has the USB 1 limitation? Or is this a HDD connectivity,
driver / support issue, versus an OS issue?
That would work with USB 1 also. These questions would best be asked in
the Windows 98 groups where the resident experts can offer in depth advice.
John- Hide quoted text -
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I'm back. The consensus of the guys over in the 98 gang opined it
best to keep most of the drive formatted in an NTFS partition, with a
smaller partition formatted in FAT32 for the 98 machine.
Now, how do I do that? Went to My Computer, selected the drive in
discussion, right clicked and selected Properties. Selected Format
and there was nothing there that said anything about setting up a
second partition, FAT32 or anything else that I wanted to do. I
obviously took the wrong path.....again. Directions please?
You can use the built-in Disk Management tool. To access the tool click on Start | Run and enter the following command:
diskmgmt.msc
If you have unallocated space in the drive you can create a partition out of it. If you have no unallocated space you will have to blow away the partition on the disk and then create 2 new ones as you want them. It goes without saying that all the information on the drive will be lost! If you want to make a new partition but keep the information you have now you can use third party partitioning tools instead of the Disk Management tool. These third party tools allow you to non destructively resize partitions. Or copy the information on the disk elsewhere before you do the partioning work then copy it back to the new partition after you are done.
John
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