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Name: Gambler57
Date: May 6, 2003 at 20:50:26 Pacific
OS: W2K pro
CPU/Ram: 800mhz/512mg
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Just purchased a 60g portable HD with USB connection. When I tried to partition and format it I got the msg that the volumn was too large using fat32. only way I could do it was using ntfs. Is this a problem with usb connection? Eventually I made 2 partitions the largest 32g and I could format using fat32. Any ideas?
Thanks



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Name: Sjafiu
Date: May 6, 2003 at 22:11:50 Pacific
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Look at

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q154997

NOTE : Windows 2000 only supports FAT32 file system upto 32Gigs.

The Key is FAT32 has a design limit of 2tetrabytes (or something like that). But that doesn't mean windows supports the MAX limit. So - NTFS Baby

They say it's because once you Get so large the amount of Space Saving is minimized.


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