Re: < 32 GB partitions only at external hard drive

"ko" <KOtto@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*o*m> wrote in message
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>> "ko" <KOtto@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > 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.
>>
>> I'm not sure why NTFS won't create the partitions. I would suspect the
>> m/b
>> BIOS. If you want to create a larger FAT32 partition attach the USB drive
>> to
>> a Windows 98 computer. Once the larger FAT32 partitions are created and
>> formatted XP will work with them it just won't create them. You will be
>> limited to a maximum file size of 4 GB when using FAT32 though. This
>> makes
>> it kind of useless for backups unless you are just doing file copies.
>>
>> Kerry
>
> Hi Kerry,
>
> Even more bizar is the fact that it does create partitions of size
> 32GB and format them in fat32 but not 32GB NTFS :~
> On my notebook I created the desired number of partition with sizes
> 100,100 and 50GB and format them correctly in NTFS; but on my PC (XP
> pro sp1) the explorer says that the partitions are not yet formatted
> and I have to format them again. Hopefully the win98 trick works. I'll
> let you know.
>
> Thanks Kerry,
>
> KO

Is there some reason you can't upgrade to SP2? In an earlier post you say
you used a registry file to enable 48 bit LBA. What were the contents of the
file? With SP1 it shouldn't be needed.


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