"Irwin" wrote in message
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Hello. I bought a WD 500 GB external hard drive with a fat32
partition. Using the xp manage dialog, I wiped the partition and want
to put a 250 gb partition. The new partition wizard will allow a 500
gb partition, but if I click the down arrow, it goes to 18 gb. If I
type 250 gb, then it puts in 18 gb. Why won't this work?

Thanks,
IMF


Use disk management and do not use FAT32.
use NTFS.

XP can only create up to a 32gig fat32 partition

(don't know why you only got 18gigs though)