Re: hard drive limitations

From: Thomas Wendell (tumppiw_NOSPAM_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 18:00:41 +0300

XP can only format <32G drives to FAT32. Older fdisks doesn't have that
limitation.. 

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"septemberschild" <septemberschild@discussions.microsoft.com> kirjoitti
viestissä news:9F606E67-6841-49D3-AB64-AFBE64A4E534@microsoft.com...
> oh please please mighty Microsoft, find a way to remove the limitations
that
> cause this: Why when inside of Disk Management are you able to fdisk a
drive,
> partition
> it and then when you go to format it your only option is NTFS? Then if you
go
> to the Command Window and type "format D: /fs:fat32" it will check the
disk
> for errors which takes a long time on a 100gig HD and returns an error
> message that states "Disk is too large for FAT32"? But yet you can boot
with
> a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, re-partition, reboot then format the disk
with
> no problem? Why is there a limitation inside of XP? Both from Disk Manager
> inside of Admin Tools and from the DOS window?
>

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