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phnompenh72

Hi,

Can anyone help me format 2 80gb hard drive for FAT 32 system (I have a win98 pc among others) I dont have much money cause Im a poor student, but I can buy you a few pints in Roisins or somethin!

Thanks,

Ruairi

jabberwock

where abouts are you?

gerryk

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+1

phnompenh72

Im in Galway city, the East side of town, near the GMIT, but I can travel to whereever your at..

Cheers,

Ruairi

Lump

Right slick on the drive and go to format..... what's the problem?

John

po0k

PM me.

phnompenh72

In reply:

I cant format it cause I dont have the win98 cd to make a boot disk and I dont want to install xp on the hdd til after I copy all the data onto these new hdd, Id hate to loose the stuff Im just about to back up so Im trying to play it safe..

Cableguy

FYI:

FAT 32 Can only format drives up to 32 Gig. So you`ll have to creat three partitions dude for each drive.

phnompenh72

Isint that only when use format to Fat32 using WinXp? if you use win98 cant it be much larger? Thats basically what I need.. It has to be formatted using win98 with Fat32...

Asok

Cableguy wrote:

FYI:

FAT 32 Can only format drives up to 32 Gig. So you`ll have to creat three partitions dude for each drive.

Where in the name of god did you dig up that nugget of complete and utter shìte

Cableguy

You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead.


NOTE: When attempting to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB, the format fails near the end of the process with the following error:
Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big.

Asok

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/fat32.html

Please read and understand.

po0k

Cableguy wrote:

You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead.


NOTE: When attempting to format a FAT32 partition larger than 32 GB, the format fails near the end of the process with the following error:
Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big.

Or use one of a myriad of tools for format larger drives in FAT32.

Or build a *nix fileserver and mount stuff over the network.

djmarkus

http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/

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