Re: hard drive limitations

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:08:56 -0500

It would be nice if my parents were still alive, that I had
bought Microsoft stock back about 1981, that I win the
lottery on Wednesday.
Get Partition Magic and you can do what ever you want, 

-- 
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
"LVTravel" <none@nothere.com> wrote in message 
news:10j6if6i08at5fa@corp.supernews.com...
| Jim, it would be nice if Microsoft did allow (with a 
hotfix) an XP machine
| to format a larger than 32 GB FAT partition.  I use an 
external USB drive
| between many different machines (W98, W98SE, ME, NT, 2K & 
XP) to carry all
| my diagnostic software and program installs as it is 
normally easier to
| carry the drive and one installation CD than many CDs. 
When I originally
| created this drive, I had to scrounge around for a Win 98 
machine (I only
| had XP at home) to format the disk as I knew that XP could 
not format the 80
| GB HD and simply booting by using a 98 boot disk would not 
work since it was
| a USB drive.
|
|
| "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote 
in message
| news:%23IoHIDojEHA.3944@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
| > Because FAT32 is not stable and NTFS is much more 
suitable
| > for large drives, neither large hard drives nor NTFS 
existed
| > when FDISK was written.
| >
| > Unless you are in need of FAT because you are dual 
booting
| > an obsolete OS or have some system that does not yet 
support
| > NTFS, there is no reason not to use NTFS.  Even Linux is
| > working on NTFS support.
| >
| >
| > -- 
| > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
| > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| >
| >
| > "septemberschild"
| > <septemberschild@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message
| > 
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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