On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:25:10 +0800, "why" <why198546******.com> wrote:
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> So far as i know,Fat32 support upto only 32GB![/color]


Sorry, that is not correct.

Windows XP and Vista will not *create* a FAT32 partition larger than
32GB, but it will happily use one if created externally.


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Tim Slattery wrote:
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> "why" <why198546******.com> wrote:
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>>So far as i know,Fat32 support upto only 32GB![/color]
>
> Not true. Windows XP and Vista will not create a FAT32 partition
> larger than 32GB (since NTFS is available and is a MUCH better choice
> for such large partitions), but other disk utilities, including the
> Win98 version of FDISK, will create much larger FAT32 partitions, and
> the later versions of Windows will use those with no problems.
>[/color]
Since I'm suspecting that the drive the OP is using is an external drive,
probably USB2, will Win98 be able to deal with it?

Cheers.

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AlexB: "If it is Business or Ultimate open Command Prompt as administrator
and type lusrmgr.msc."
^^^^^
I must say the developers at Microsoft do have a sense of humour.

NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>Since I'm suspecting that the drive the OP is using is an external drive,
>probably USB2, will Win98 be able to deal with it?[/color]

Currently his drive is using NTFS, so Win98 can't deal with it at all.
When and if he switches to FAT32, Win98 will be able to see it. There
may be a problem if the partition is larger than 137GB, I'm not sure
about that.

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Tim Slattery wrote:
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> NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>>Since I'm suspecting that the drive the OP is using is an external drive,
>>probably USB2, will Win98 be able to deal with it?[/color]
>
> Currently his drive is using NTFS, so Win98 can't deal with it at all.
> When and if he switches to FAT32, Win98 will be able to see it. There
> may be a problem if the partition is larger than 137GB, I'm not sure
> about that.
>[/color]
Thanks for not answering my question, nor clarifying anything. :-) I thought
you suggested that Win98 can be used to format that drive to FAT32. Hence
my question.

Cheers.

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AlexB: "If it is Business or Ultimate open Command Prompt as administrator
and type lusrmgr.msc."
^^^^^
I must say the developers at Microsoft do have a sense of humour.

NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>Tim Slattery wrote:
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>> NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>>>Since I'm suspecting that the drive the OP is using is an external drive,
>>>probably USB2, will Win98 be able to deal with it?[/color]
>>
>> Currently his drive is using NTFS, so Win98 can't deal with it at all.
>> When and if he switches to FAT32, Win98 will be able to see it. There
>> may be a problem if the partition is larger than 137GB, I'm not sure
>> about that.
>>[/color]
>Thanks for not answering my question, nor clarifying anything. :-) I thought
>you suggested that Win98 can be used to format that drive to FAT32. Hence
>my question.[/color]

OK, I didn't understand that. I said that the FDISK utility that came
with Win98 can make FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB. You're right
that a Win98 system wouldn't even see the NTFS partition. But if you
booted from a WIN98 startup disk and ran FDISK, I think it would be
visible. You could then delete the NTFS partition and create a FAT32
one.

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Tim Slattery wrote:
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> NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>>Tim Slattery wrote:
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>>> NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Since I'm suspecting that the drive the OP is using is an external
>>>>drive, probably USB2, will Win98 be able to deal with it?
>>>
>>> Currently his drive is using NTFS, so Win98 can't deal with it at all.
>>> When and if he switches to FAT32, Win98 will be able to see it. There
>>> may be a problem if the partition is larger than 137GB, I'm not sure
>>> about that.
>>>[/color]
>>Thanks for not answering my question, nor clarifying anything. :-) I
>>thought you suggested that Win98 can be used to format that drive to
>>FAT32. Hence my question.[/color]
>
> OK, I didn't understand that. I said that the FDISK utility that came
> with Win98 can make FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB. You're right
> that a Win98 system wouldn't even see the NTFS partition. But if you
> booted from a WIN98 startup disk and ran FDISK, I think it would be
> visible. You could then delete the NTFS partition and create a FAT32
> one.
>[/color]
But, will Win98 booted from a floppy even see an external USB2 hard drive?
Are there drivers that can be installed on such a boot disk that would give
one access to this type of drive?

Cheers.

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AlexB: "If it is Business or Ultimate open Command Prompt as administrator
and type lusrmgr.msc."
^^^^^
I must say the developers at Microsoft do have a sense of humour.

NoStop <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>But, will Win98 booted from a floppy even see an external USB2 hard drive?
>Are there drivers that can be installed on such a boot disk that would give
>one access to this type of drive?[/color]

Simply booting from a Win98 startup disk would start DOS (I forget
which version) not Win98, and would pretty surely leave you with no
USB support. If you could find a Win98 FDISK, you could use it in XP
or Vista.

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Thank you. As I will be using the drive mostly with a Mac, I've decided that
it would be too much trouble to use Win98 to partition it 6 times into FAT32
just so that I could occasionally use it with my PC. As it happens, I'm
writing this on my Mac, as my stupid Windows Vista PC has stopped connecting
to or even seeing my wireless network. HFS+ all the way!

Thanks to all who have endeavored to help. Much appreciated :)

"Tim Slattery" wrote:
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> "why" <why198546******.com> wrote:
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> >So far as i know,Fat32 support upto only 32GB![/color]
>
> Not true. Windows XP and Vista will not create a FAT32 partition
> larger than 32GB (since NTFS is available and is a MUCH better choice
> for such large partitions), but other disk utilities, including the
> Win98 version of FDISK, will create much larger FAT32 partitions, and
> the later versions of Windows will use those with no problems.
>
> AFAIK, you'll need a third-party tool to convert a partition from NTFS
> to FAT32. When you do that, you'll lose some file meta-data that you
> see on an NTFS system when you right-click, and choose "Properties".
> Some of that data is stored in NTFS named streams (see
> [url]http://members.cox.net/slatteryt/Streams.html[/url]). Since streams don't
> exist in FAT32, that data would disappear.
>
> --
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> MS MVP(Shell/User)
> [email]Slattery_T@bls.gov[/email]
> [url]http://members.cox.net/slatteryt[/url]
>[/color]

Did you try using Disk Management.
Its in computer management < storage
I think

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"solidliquidgas" <solidliquidgas.37s6i2@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:solidliquidgas.37s6i2@no-mx.forums.net...[color=blue]
>
> I was having the trouble of formatting a 120gb external USB drive as
> FAT32 under Vista for my MP3 player. The MP3 player uses a standard
> 2.5" IDE laptop hard drive but would not recognize a drive formatted
> under NTFS. I don't have a floppy drive in my new PC (what were "floppy
> drives?) :) and using a command line "Format" just gave me a typical
> Vista access rights issue. The program is available here:
> 'Fat32Formatter' ([url]http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/[/url])
>
> and worked for me beautifully. It's not fancy and there are no major
> bells and whistles, but it did exactly what I needed it to do. It even
> worked with Vista (hardly something you can take for granted!). :)
>
> Note: I'm sure it's been said before, but BACK UP anything on your
> drive before trying to convert NTFS to FAT32 or vice versa. I am not
> sure the attached program converts without data loss (doubtful).
>
>
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"solidliquidgas" <solidliquidgas.381kp1@no-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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>
> Yes, but Computer Management only gave the option of formatting as NTFS.
> From what I've been reading, Microsoft started making NTFS the only
> option for formatting on drives larger than 32GB.[/color]

Yes, they did this with XP. It's been the case for several years now.
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> As for drives less
> than 32GB, I haven't tried to format one under Vista as I don't have any
> 32GB or smaller drives to hook up and try.[/color]

It would be the same. If you want to format FAT32 on a larger partition,
you have to use a 3rd party tool or a previous version of Windows.

HTH
-pk

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Hi all!

Wondering if any body had some advice, i recently formatted my external
1 tb drive, its was in fat 32 but now is ntfs and i use it on my ps3 but
since its in ntfs my ps3 will not pick it up, i would like to put the
whole thing back to fat32 i use vista, and so far had no joy, is there
any programs or way of doing it thats easy and straight forward?


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> Hi all!
>
> Wondering if any body had some advice, i recently formatted my external
> 1 tb drive, its was in fat 32 but now is ntfs and i use it on my ps3 but
> since its in ntfs my ps3 will not pick it up, i would like to put the
> whole thing back to fat32 i use vista, and so far had no joy, is there
> any programs or way of doing it thats easy and straight forward?
>
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Just have your PS3 format it.