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win2k-- volume size too big error ?

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b4ugo

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Okay, I just installed a second HD in my 1.2 Athlon. First HD (HD0) is 40Gig and partitioned into 4X10Gig. The new one is an 80Gig for video editing and such, so I was just going to format it as 1 big drive, but the win2k disk manager reports that the "volume is too big" after it seemed to format it successfully. Hummmm. So I split it into 2X40Gigs, and formated the first half and again got the same error message... Am I missing something? The computer recognizes it just fine, but I cant seem to format it. FAT32, btw. I know, I know, I should use NTFS, but the other 4 partions are FAT32 and I dont want to mix and match. Ideas? Thanks.
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Both Win2K and WinXP will prevent you from formatting FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB in order to encourage NTFS use.

If you insist on having a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB, you need to format it under Win98 or WinME.

For full details, please read the FAQ: FAT32 vs NTFS
 
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