[pchelpers] Re: Format Large Hard Drive w/ FAT32
- From: "s m d" <indigo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:32:13 -0700
Thanks Scott and Bob, your comments were quite helpful. I formatted the hard
drive on Win 2000 in FAT32 and created a 32G partition as was suggested. I'm
assuming there must have been a partition there when I first bought the hard
drive and just didn't notice it.
-Susan
----- Original Message -----
>
> Susan,
> By now I suspect you know that you can format a large drive with FAT32
> so the question is what are you using to try to do it with? The format
> command that comes with Win95 can't do it and if you put it in an older
> computer who's motherboard doesn't support large drives you won't be able to
> do it. But if you have a new machine and Win98 or Me boot floppies you can
> do it.
>
> Bob McLellan
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