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I'm just borrowing the drive, it's owner is going to use it
in a Win 98SE or Win Me computer.
He only has dial up, so I'm using my 3000/250 cable modem
to download stuff and put it on the second partition for him.
"GTS" <gts123NOSPAM@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:4aEtc.11$984.6@newsfe5-win...
> Had the same issue myself this week with an Hitachi 160gb drive. However I
> chose to go with four NTFS partitions (still over the XP 32gb limit)
because
> as someone here pointed out, the bigger the partition the longer it would
> take to defrag. My boot drive is still FAT32. To avoid the 32gb XP limit
for
> FAT32 perhaps you could use five partitions?
> How come you want to use FAT32 over NTFS anyway?
> Graham
> "Michael Kimmer" <michael.kimmer@freenet.de> wrote in message
> news:40b6f925$0$563$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> > Tod wrote:
> > > I've got a 160GB WD using a Promise 100 ATA controller, as a storage
> > > drive. I'm using Windows XP home, I would like to format the 160GB
> > > with 2 FAT32 partitions.
> > > But Win XP will only seem to allow NTFS.
> > > My Win 98SE boot disk can not see the whole drive.
> > > I've heard partition magic can do the job.
> > > Any other programs ?
> >
> > Hi Tod,
> > This is an XP limitation of not allowing you to format FAT32 partition
> that
> > exceed 32 GB in size...
> > PartitionMagic 8.0 can indeed bypass this XP limitation...
> >
> > Perhaps Ranish Partition Manager?
> > http://www.ranish.com/part/
> >
> > --
> > M.f.G.
> > Michael Kimmer
> >
> > "Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
> > "Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
> >
> >
>
>
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