Re: A Related Maxtor External HD Problem

Creating a FAT32 partition in XP has two limitations! 1) FAT32 partitions
can only be created to a maximum of 32GB with XP's Disk Management (do not
know why this limit?) and 2) File sizes on FAT32 can not be greater than 4GB
each.


"Mike K." <MikeK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm afraid that I can only share in your misery around this problem. I
> think
> that our problems are related.
>
> I also have a Maxtor One Touch External Hard Disk (200GB with USB 2.0)
> that
> I would like to use for both a Mac (OS X10.4 Tiger) and a Windows (XP
> Home)
> computer. In my case I'd like to create a single large partition to hold
> a
> large and growing collection of pictures and video clips. Ideally either
> computer should be able to read or write to the external hard disk.
>
> Option 1: When I format the disk with XP in NTFS, the Mac can read but not
> write to the HD. Actually with older versions of Mac OS (I tried 10.2)
> you
> can't even read NTFS.
>
> Option 2: When I format the disk with the Mac, the XP machine sees the
> disk
> as a FAT32 formatted volume. I tried copying a few files and it crashed
> the
> hard disk in less than five minutes. Neither computer would recognize it.
>
> Option 3: Reformat the disk with FAT32 file system using either an older
> Windows operating system or a third party utility. Actually I haven't
> tried
> this option yet. I was hoping to learn something about clusters and block
> sizes that would sensibly use the disk space before I start to populate
> it.
>
> Hope someone has better insights to either or both of our problems.
>


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