Re: How to remove/resize partitions on external USB Hard Drive?

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From: zibby (sales_at_az-electronics.no)
Date: 11/08/04 

Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 08:31:11 -0500

Use partition magic 8.0
FAT32 will be limited up to 198Gb (PM8.0 won't let you resize past that
limit)

"busterdog77" <busterdog77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6B2FE2D9-22EC-40CF-8007-929EA26E4EB5@microsoft.com...
> I have had a 60G external hard drive that has worked flawlessly for 2
years
> with both my desktop computer running Win98SE, and my newer laptop with
> Windows XP. This external drive was formatted with FAT 32 and NO
PARTITIONS
> for all 60G. Because I have a Lot of music files and digital pictures, I
> have filled up the 60G drive, so bought an IOGear 160G external drive.
This
> drive arrived partitioned into 6 partitions, of 20-32G sizes. This is
> completely wrong for how I want to use the drive. All my mp3 programs
> requires the library to be all in one volume, so I need 60-80G all in one
> volume just for music. IOGear support says that Windows XP does not allow
> volumes any larger than 60G in FAT 32. (This seems crazy since my older
> drive is all one volume and is FAT 32.) Does anyone know how I can
collapse
> these volumes onto one larger one (say 80-90 G) and have it in a format
that
> both my Win98SE system and my WindowsXP laptop can both access?

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