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| Thread ID: 87871 | 2008-03-07 09:22:00 | Help with FAT32 External HDD?? | springa886 (10558) | Press F1 |
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| 647107 | 2008-03-07 09:22:00 | Hey guys and gals, I recently bought a OTG DigiMate 2.5" IDE Enclosure and a 60GB HDD to go inside it. I got it off TradeMe and it didn't come with any instructions but the guy who sold it to me sent me an email trying to explain how to use it. I don't really understand his instructions so I thought i'd ask here if anyone knows how to use one properly. In his email he says that the drive has to be formatted to FAT32 or it won't work, but when I go to format it, theres only an option for NTFS!! So I thought i'd partition the drive and have half NTFS and the other half FAT32 (which worked BTW), then hooked my camera up to it, but the DigiMate kept on showing the ERR/FULL light (Trust me, the drive was empty!!). Anyone know what the problem is?? Cheers. |
springa886 (10558) | ||
| 647108 | 2008-03-07 10:07:00 | Most likely the DigiMate can't understand NTFS partitions. If you must use an NTFS/FAT32 combo, make sure the FAT32 partition is the first one on the drive. If that still doesn't work, make one large partition and format that as FAT32. Note that Windows can't do this (MS places a 32GB artificial limit on the max formattable FAT32 size) so you will need to use a Linux livecd or something to format it. Windows will still be able to read the partition fine. Note that some products like this don't use a partition table and put the filesystem directly on the drive - if that is the case with this product, then you will need to format the device directly (/dev/sdN rather than /dev/sdN1). |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 647109 | 2008-03-07 11:09:00 | so you will need to use a Linux livecd or something to format it. This has been mentioned as a solution www.compuapps.com |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 647110 | 2008-03-07 19:03:00 | Note that Windows can't do this (MS places a 32GB artificial limit on the max formattable FAT32 size) Windows XP won't. You need Win98 to do it. Be accurate. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 647111 | 2008-03-07 20:14:00 | Windows XP won't. You need Win98 to do it. Be accurate.Interesting - I always thought that this limit also applied to Win98 systems. Thanks :thumbs: |
Erayd (23) | ||
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