Re: trying to connect a USB and Firewire external drive

I think you are mistaken on that one.

MS does not want for us to use FAT32, so they would only read
FAT32partitions that are less than 32 Gbs

There is plenty of docs about it even at MS sites

Also I am using an external drive

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