Re: < 32 GB partitions only at external hard drive
- From: "Bob Harris" <rharris270[SPAM]@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:44:47 -0500
While XP has a limit of 32 Gig for creating FAT32 partitions, it has no
limit on NTFS partitions. I have made NTFS partitions up to 120 Gig on a
USB hard drive with XP.
If you are having trouble with NTFS of any size, that is NOT normal for XP.
In fact, XP normally defaults to doing NTFS.
Potential problems could be:
1. PC's motherboard BIOS does not support large disks, meaning disks bigger
than about 127 Gig. Or, if a really old PC upgraded to XP, then the BIOS
limit could be as low as 32 Gig. Check the PC or motherboard maker for
details. While this is more a problem for internal disks, a suficiently old
PC might also have trouble with large external disks.
2. XP does not automatically support disks larger than 127 Gig, even if the
BIOS can handle them. You need at least SP-1 and you need to enable 48-bit
LBA.
3. Maybe some part of the XP installation is corrupt. Think about running
SFC /SCANNOW. Have your XP CDROM handy. Or, try a repair install of XP
using the XP CDROM. Be careful, the difference betwen a repair instal and a
clean install is only a few mouse clicks, and a clean install will erase
everything first. If you do a repair, remeber o immedfiately run windows
update, snce a repair removes all updates newer than the date on the CDROM.
4. Try using the XP recovery console to make partitions. This is run from
the XP CDROM.
5. Use third-party software to make partitions. For example, Partition
Magic can work on an external drive and is not limited to 32Gig for FAT32.
It can also do NTFS.
Finally, cionsider using a different PC, also running XP, to format the hard
drive.
"ko" <KOtto@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:81d38d4b.0504100125.762c2b14@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi all,
>
> recently I bought a 250 GB hard drive to connect on my usb2.0 port.
> But disk management in XP pro cannot build partitions bigger than
> 32GB. So far I have created 3 partions of 32GB fat32, which works fine
> but a partition of 32 GB NTFS is not possible or a partition of 64 GB
> NTFS: in both cases the format step stops at 100% saying that it could
> not be completed. Maybe important: on my notebook it has been no
> problem to create to 100 GB partitions.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> KO.
.
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