[iyonix-support] Re: USB external hard drive under Fat32FS

  • From: Robin Hounsome <robin.hounsome@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:47:23 +0000 (GMT)

In article <alpine.DEB.2.02.1101130852370.28550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Iyonix PC Owner <iyonix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Chris F wrote:

> [snip]
> > Thank-you, Rainer. I believe I will need a PC with XP to reformat it.

> Depending on the size of the disk, XP may not be able to format the
> drive in full as Fat32. There may be some tools on the drive that
> are able to do the job though. So a close inspection of the drive's
> contents is recommended.

XP's inbuilt formatter is limited to < 32GB for FAT32.

The FAT32 formatter at http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ worked for me
with a 250GB drive

HTH

Robin

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