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| Thread ID: 22931 | 2002-08-03 08:02:00 | Xp Installation | Will (553) | Press F1 |
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| 67798 | 2002-08-05 05:45:00 | no I didnt set out to format with Fat purposely ..... I just wanted a separate primary partition to install the O/S ......... which I made 2 GB and it created Fat automaticly ..... when i changed it to 3 Gb it came up as Fat32 i tried formatting as fat 32 in dos as Craig suggested but XP wanted to reformat the drive again at the beginning of the instalation and created Fat again so that didnt worh either but now I have a 3 GB primary with Fat32 and the remaining extended as a single drive with NTFS |
Will (553) | ||
| 67799 | 2002-08-05 05:59:00 | There is an advanced feature in XP FORMAT. :D It can't format a FAT32 volume greater than 32 GB. XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes bigger than that, but it can't make them. "Note: when you attempt to format a FAT32 volume that is larger than 32GB during the Windows Xp installation process, the format process fails near the end of the process, and you may receive the following error message: "Logical Manager: Volume size too big". (Microsoft Knowledge base) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 67800 | 2002-08-05 06:23:00 | Strange about XP wanting to reformat on the installation. I have never had this happen, but I usually format to fat32, install win98 (My CD Drive is not bootable, and the XP CD cannot be run through DOS), and then perform a NEW (Advanced) Installation through the windows XP install interface. When XP reboots the computer, you get the choice of overwriting the old (Win98) copy, and replacing it with XP. This has worked fine for me now on several occasions, and I now run 2 80Gb drives and a 40Gb as Fat32. Is there a particular reason why you don't want to use ntfs?? I have used it but a couple of my apps will not run with ntfs (They are old DOS accounting packages), and there seems to be now drawbacks?? Craig. |
Craig Bellhouse (493) | ||
| 67801 | 2002-08-05 08:55:00 | Craig .... no particular reason for Fat32 except to be sure of backwards compatibility ( cause i'm not sure what programs will run on NTFS and what wont) | Will (553) | ||
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