Format 80 Gig firewire drive to FAT32 under XP pro

Posted: 04-03-2004, 04:09 PM

Dan Tyack

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I need to format an 80 gig firewire drive under XP, but
this doesn't seem possible with XP. According to the
documentation, there is a limit of 32 gigs for formatting
under XP (even though it will recognize larger volumes).
An article mentions using a win98 startup disk to format,
but this isn't going to work, because it's not going to
recognize the firewire drive. Anybody have any
recommendations? (going to NTFS isn't possible, I need to
use the drive with a Mac as well as my XP machine).

Format 80 Gig firewire drive to FAT32 under XP pro

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Jim Macklin

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Re: Format 80 Gig firewire drive to FAT32 under XP pro

Posted: 04-03-2004, 04:19 PM

Get Partition Magic

"Dan Tyack" <dan@tyack.com> wrote in message
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| I need to format an 80 gig firewire drive under XP, but
| this doesn't seem possible with XP. According to the
| documentation, there is a limit of 32 gigs for formatting
| under XP (even though it will recognize larger volumes).
| An article mentions using a win98 startup disk to format,
| but this isn't going to work, because it's not going to
| recognize the firewire drive. Anybody have any
| recommendations? (going to NTFS isn't possible, I need to
| use the drive with a Mac as well as my XP machine).

Bob Harris

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Re: Format 80 Gig firewire drive to FAT32 under XP pro

Posted: 04-06-2004, 12:37 AM

You need a non-Microsoft program to do the formating. I use Partition Magic
(version 8) for such things, but there are other similar programs. Try a
web search on "change partition", or similar.

"Dan Tyack" <dan@tyack.com> wrote in message
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> I need to format an 80 gig firewire drive under XP, but
> this doesn't seem possible with XP. According to the
> documentation, there is a limit of 32 gigs for formatting
> under XP (even though it will recognize larger volumes).
> An article mentions using a win98 startup disk to format,
> but this isn't going to work, because it's not going to
> recognize the firewire drive. Anybody have any
> recommendations? (going to NTFS isn't possible, I need to
> use the drive with a Mac as well as my XP machine).

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