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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 05, 2005 11:24 AM
 
Your welcome Ray, sorry it did not work the way you wanted it to, if you have any other questions then please let us know. ------------------
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Ray Junior Member |
posted April 05, 2005 07:28 AM
Thanks Josh1, I'll take it from there. Ray IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 04, 2005 03:21 PM
This should explain http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q314463/ ------------------
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 04, 2005 03:15 PM
Sorry I might not have been understanding you. The size limitation has always been like that, from the beginning of FAT32, way back with Windows 95 version B. I don’t think there is a workaround with that, and if you got this to work with Windows 98, then I don’t know how. ------------------
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Ray Junior Member |
posted April 04, 2005 08:07 AM
Hello Josh1, Perhaps we need to restart... I have 2 HDs on the computer. In DOS they are known as C: and D:. The C: drive, 80GB, has 4 partitions: 1=DR-DOS, 2 GB. 2=Win_XP, 36 GB, 3=Linux Swap, 512MB, The D: drive, 120GB has 2 partitions: 1=DOS (FAT16)for DOS archive, 2GB. 2=(FAT32)for a common archive location, 118 GB. THIS PARTITION WAS FORMATTED WITH WIN98se *BEFORE* INSTALLING WIN_XP. I now have added a third drive, a SCSI connected to my ADAPTEC 2930U card. 37GB. Linux FDISK "sees" this drive in its entirety. I can set the type to FAT32 but haven't been able to format FAT32 with Linux. Therefore the delima. The question was "Why did Macro$haft change the max HD size to only 32GB when straining mightely to produce Win_XP and is there a work-around?" Thanks, IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 03, 2005 11:13 PM
Are you sure you formatted a 110GB with only the primary partition, and that being the full size of the drive? It does not matter what OS you use FAT 16 is 2.1GB limit, FAT32 is 32GB limit, NTFS TB limit. Why not just format the XP partition with FAT32, only 5GB, then format the extended partition the other 95GB or so? ------------------
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Ray Junior Member |
posted April 03, 2005 10:26 AM
Hi Josh, Linux supports/reads/writes many file systems. However it will only read NTFS, not write. That is why I want FAT32 for a newly installed SCSI HD of > 32GB. I have 4 OS'. DR-DOS, WIN_XP and Linux Mandrake 9.2 on one spindle with Lilo as the Boot menu. The SCSI drive is the third in the system. It is strange that WIN_98se can format FAT32 beyond at least 110GB while WIN-XP's command line formatter has the 32GB limitation. :-( Thanks again, Ray For every solution, there is a problem! IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 03, 2005 12:50 AM
I am not familiar with that OS, does Linux support FAT32, I thought it just supported HPFS, but I could be wrong. Well then the only thing I can think of to partition your drive into 4 partition, make Linux your active partition, so you can boot from it. There may some tools for this on a Linux website, let me have a look and see if I can better help you. ------------------
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Ray Junior Member |
posted April 02, 2005 07:07 AM
Thanks Josh, I should have mentioned... I need FAT32 for R/W accesss to the HD by Linux, my OS of choice. Ray IP: Logged |
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Josh1 Administrator |
posted April 02, 2005 12:11 AM
32GB per partition is the limitation for FAT 32, but NTFS is 2Terabytes, so you should be Able to format, and use the maximum size of the drive in drive NTFS it should work but you will have to use NTFS, and not FAT32 ------------------
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Ray Junior Member |
posted April 01, 2005 08:51 AM
I have just installed a SCSI drive on my machine. I have low level formatted and fdisked it, setting the type to FAT32. However, I cannot format the drive under WIN XP due to a 32GB limitation. I have formated over 100 GB with Win 98se. Is there a work-around for this limitation with Windows XP that anyone knows of? Thanks, Ray IP: Logged |
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