Format Fat32 >32GB?

[cnhoff]

At work we have a 60 Gig harddrive, whith all of its capacity in one partition. I don't see how you can format a Fat32 partiotion with more than 32 GB.

Any suggestions?!

 

[Sunner]

You can't with Win2K/XP's format tools, this is a limitation in those systems, not in FAT32.

Why would you want to anyway?

 

[bacillus]

I don't see how you can format a Fat32 partiotion with more than 32 GB.

it entirely possible using a win98 or ME startup floppy though storage will be very inefficient as the cluster size above 32,768 MB is 32 KB!

 

[crisp82]

Partition it into 2 30gig drives?

 

[THUGSROOK]

WinME's fat32 fdisk for drives upto 127gb. (works on any fat32 OS)

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: bacillus
it entirely possible using a win98 or ME startup floppy though storage will be very inefficient as the cluster size above 32,768 MB is 32 KB!

i agree ~ at least partition it in half.
for an OS 32k clusters will suck.
for a "storage drive" it wont really matter tho.

 

[NogginBoink]

This is Microsoft's way of encouraging you to use a more robust, stable filesystem like NTFS.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to run a FAT partition of this size.

 

[Nothinman]

FAT is deprecated, stop using it.

 

[THUGSROOK]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
FAT is deprecated, stop using it.

no

 

[cnhoff]

It's a FAT32 USB drive and i can't stop using it, unless Linux supports stable NTF writing...

 

[Sunner]

You'll have to get hold of some external utility to format it for you then.
I guess maybe Partition Magic could do this for you?

 

[asb002]

It's a FAT32 USB drive and i can't stop using it, unless Linux supports stable NTF writing...

Format it ReiserFS/ext3/whatever?

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: asb002

It's a FAT32 USB drive and i can't stop using it, unless Linux supports stable NTF writing...

Format it ReiserFS/ext3/whatever?

I think he meant he needs to write to it from both OS's