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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
Cymbal Man Freq. wrote:
"John John" wrote in message ... Windows XP cannot format FAT32 drives (partitions) larger than 32 GB but it can mount larger FAT32 drives formated by other operating systems or disk/partitioning/formating utilities. Formating such large drive FAT32 would be a waste of disk space anyway, there is nothing stopping you from copying the data from FAT32 drives to NTFS so I would suggest that you use the NTFS file system. My Windows Me drive (FAT 32) won't see the NTFS drives. OP probably has a similar problem where FAT 32 system drive cannot see NTFS drives. No, this is not at all correct. First of all, note that it's not drives or file systems that see other drives or file systems; it's the operating system that does or doesn't do this. File systems don't see or access file systems, under any circumstances. So it's Windows Me (not the FAT32 drive it's installed on) that can't see an NTFS drive. However, Windows XP, whether Home or Professional, can access NTFS, FAT32, FAT16, and FAT12, in any combination at all, and regardless of what file system it's installed on. If Windows XP is installed using FAT, it can see and access NTFS just as well as if were installed under NTFS. And if it's installed under NTFS, it can see and access FAT drives without a problem. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
"emil_lam" wrote in message ups.com... | I just bought the mentioned 320GB HDD and intended to copy over 60GB | files from old UDMA 33 HDDs which were all formatted in FAT32. I | followed KB link | http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1 | to format the new SATAII HDD. | | Windows XP only gave NTFS as partition type option. Since NTFS & FAT32 | partitions were incompatible, I couldn't copy the files to this new | drive unless I changed all my old drive partitions to NTFS. I think | it's too tedious and risky to change my old HDD partition format. Could | someone suggest methods for me to copy data safely from my FAT32 | formatted HDD to this SATA HDD ? | | Tks SATA II: Can't you partition the first 2 partitions as FAT 32 @ 32GB each, then partition the next 2 partitions as NTFS with 125 GB each? |
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when "Cymbal Man Freq."
Don't g opened his gob and said: SATA II: Can't you partition the first 2 partitions as FAT 32 @ 32GB each, then partition the next 2 partitions as NTFS with 125 GB each? Yes. -- Cheers, Guy ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights ** out of someone who richly deserves it. |
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
"Cymbal Man Freq." Don't g wrote in message ... : : "emil_lam" wrote in message : ups.com... : | I just bought the mentioned 320GB HDD and intended to copy over 60GB : | files from old UDMA 33 HDDs which were all formatted in FAT32. I : | followed KB link : | : http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1 : | to format the new SATAII HDD. : | : | Windows XP only gave NTFS as partition type option. Since NTFS & FAT32 : | partitions were incompatible, I couldn't copy the files to this new : | drive unless I changed all my old drive partitions to NTFS. I think : | it's too tedious and risky to change my old HDD partition format. Could : | someone suggest methods for me to copy data safely from my FAT32 : | formatted HDD to this SATA HDD ? : | : | Tks : : SATA II: Can't you partition the first 2 partitions as FAT 32 @ 32GB each, then : partition the next 2 partitions as NTFS with 125 GB each? : : The actual size of the drive is probably 296 GB. Your four partitions are more than that. -- Ronald Sommer |
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
Wonder if 36 posts is a record? Probably not.
Just thought I'd mention that it also makes no odds what disk format is used for drives/folders shared over a network. In fact, Linux servers' shares will most likley use ext3 or Reiser, which Windows can't read at all natively. Yet they look just the same to clients. The refusal to format as FAT32 if 32GB is purely a built-in policy of Disk Administrator, which bears no relation to hardware limits. HST, max sensible size of a FAT 32 partition is probably about 120GB. Beyond that it gets _very_ inefficient. |
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How to format 320GB drive to FAT32
I was just thinking how wonderful life was, when Ian
opened his gob and said: The refusal to format as FAT32 if 32GB is purely a built-in policy of Disk Administrator, which bears no relation to hardware limits. The limit is there as some disk utils do not expect such large h/ds and can corrupt data if the run on disks 65K clusters (IIRC natch). It's a safety net. NTFS is faster on 60GB disks, FAT32 faster on 60 GB ones. For discs also read partitions. -- Cheers, Guy ** Stress - the condition brought about by having to ** resist the temptation to beat the living daylights ** out of someone who richly deserves it. |
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