[iyonix-support] Re: USB external hard drive under Fat32FS
- From: Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:07:27 GMT
On 13 Jan 2011 Robin Hounsome <robin.hounsome@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
Seconded. This formatter worked for me with a 500GB Seagate drive,
with external power. I use it regularly to back up this Iyo. A
warning, though: for some reason I don't understand DirSync disagrees
with Fat32FS, so I use Chris Johnson's update of David Pilling's
SyncDiscs to do this backup.
With best wishes,
Peter.
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