Maxtor 200gig HD install

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I've installed a Maxtor 200Gb disk in a casing and connected it to the puter
with USB cable.
On a separate USB 2.0 card.
Partitioned it with Acronis PartitionExpert.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABL
DRIVE M: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Verifying 194474M
The volume is too big for FAT32.

Devided it into 2 partitions and formatted one with the below result.

C:\>format L:
The type of the file system is FAT32.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE L: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Verifying 102437M
The volume is too big for FAT32.

Question:
How or what do I use to format the USB dive?
Can I or can't I use one big partition with FAT32?

 

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Hi, Jack.

As Mark Denton said, Win2K can USE the largest FAT32 volume you can find,
but you'll first have to use something other than Win2K/XP to do the FAT32
formatting for that volume.

Microsoft decided to limit Win2K/XP's ability to FORMAT volumes as FAT32 to
a maximum of 32 GB. I suppose this is another way to encourage us all to
more quickly move to NTFS, leaving FAT behind. Win98 can format a volume at
least as large as ~127 GB as FAT32; after that, Win2K/XP can happily use the
whole volume. Note that this applies to a "volume" (either a primary
partition or a logical drive in an extended partition); a single hard disk
drive can hold multiple volumes, of course. So, you can either partition
your 200 GB HD into at least 6 <32 GB volumes and format them as FAT32 with
Win2K, or you can Partition it into one or more <128 GB volumes and use a
Win9x/ME boot floppy and use Format.exe to format those volumes as FAT32.
(I don't know whether MS-DOS or Win9x/ME can format the whole 200 GB as a
single FAT32 volume.)

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@corridor.net
Microsoft Windows MVP

" Audio Jack" <Audioman1no@myway.com> wrote in message
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>
> I've installed a Maxtor 200Gb disk in a casing and connected it to the
> puter with USB cable.
> On a separate USB 2.0 card.
> Partitioned it with Acronis PartitionExpert.
>
> WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABL
> DRIVE M: WILL BE LOST!
> Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
> Verifying 194474M
> The volume is too big for FAT32.
>
> Devided it into 2 partitions and formatted one with the below result.
>
> C:\>format L:
> The type of the file system is FAT32.
>
> WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
> DRIVE L: WILL BE LOST!
> Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
> Verifying 102437M
> The volume is too big for FAT32.
>
> Question:
> How or what do I use to format the USB dive?
> Can I or can't I use one big partition with FAT32?