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| Thread ID: 82776 | 2007-09-07 09:59:00 | Imagetank G2 & FAT32 | bk T (215) | Press F1 |
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| 588862 | 2007-09-07 09:59:00 | Just received an email from my friend who has got a Imagetank G2 external hard drive with 60 GB storage space. He has to format this Imagetank with FAT32 in order for his digital camera to use it. Apparently, he can't use FAT32 to format this drive in XP. He has made some research from this Imagetank website saying that XP and W2k is not capable to formating FAT32 for disk larger than 32 GB. Never heard of this before. I remember quite well that I have seen many HDD with FAT32 running XP. Has any of you guys out there ever heard of this thing that XP cannot format HDD larger than 32 GB with FAT32 ? Cheers |
bk T (215) | ||
| 588863 | 2007-09-07 10:10:00 | Direct from Uncle Bills web site (support.microsoft.com) 5th Bullet point down:) You could try partitioning the drive into two. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 588864 | 2007-09-07 10:10:00 | Yup, looks like it. While XP can mount and read volumes in FAT32 larger than 32GB, it cannot apparently format it: support.microsoft.com thundercloud.net I'm sure you could get a 3rd party program to do so. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 588865 | 2007-09-07 10:15:00 | Hey Beeswax - Must have beaten ya by a matter of seconds:lol: look at the posting times. - man ya gotta be fast around here.;) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 588866 | 2007-09-07 10:58:00 | Is it possible to format it to NTFS and then convert it to FAT32? I know we can convert FAT32 to NTFS. I remember pretty well that my ASUS laptop came with 2 partitions of 50 GB in FAT32 when I first bought it. They were then converted to NTFS. But now it looks like XP has got some problem with FAT32. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 588867 | 2007-09-07 11:28:00 | From beeswax34's MS link "Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk." One of those shouldn't be too hard to find. XP is biased towards NTFS as it is better for larger disks. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 588868 | 2007-09-07 11:39:00 | Hey Beeswax - Must have beaten ya by a matter of seconds:lol: look at the posting times. - man ya gotta be fast around here.;) Hehe, I'd say. As long as everyone gets helped, a bit of competition shouldn't hurt:lol: |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 588869 | 2007-09-07 18:30:00 | Is it possible to format it to NTFS and then convert it to FAT32? I know we can convert FAT32 to NTFS. I remember pretty well that my ASUS laptop came with 2 partitions of 50 GB in FAT32 when I first bought it. They were then converted to NTFS. But now it looks like XP has got some problem with FAT32. Only if u use Partitionmagic or something, XP wont convert from NTFS to FAT32, only from FAT32 to NTFS. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 588870 | 2007-09-07 21:43:00 | Is it possible to format it to NTFS and then convert it to FAT32? But now it looks like XP has got some problem with FAT32 . No . Its not a problem, Bill just wants you to use NTFS . Format using ME like has been suggested . I have a 153GB FAT32 partition on my drive . . . . . . . . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 588871 | 2007-09-07 22:59:00 | Do you think that Partition Magic can handle the job? Has anyone here done it before? My friend is going to bring the Imagetank to me tomorrow and I'll download the Trial ver from Symantec. If I were to boot from a Win98 disk, is it possible to format a USB disk (Imagetank is using USB)? I understand that Win98 requires driver for reading USB thumb drive, not sure about this Imagetank. Can DOS read USB drive? |
bk T (215) | ||
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