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| Thread ID: 76133 | 2007-01-22 03:50:00 | What did I do?!? | ham (11808) | Press F1 |
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| 518208 | 2007-01-22 03:50:00 | I'm a novice so go easy on me! :blush: I bought a new Hitach Deskstar 160g IDE hard drive to fit into my external media player caddy. The instructions with the caddy told me to format it with fat32. Now my hard drive is only 32g, where did the rest of it go and how do i get it back? :help: |
ham (11808) | ||
| 518209 | 2007-01-22 03:54:00 | Why it tells u to format it in FAT32 I don't know. You'll have to format it in NTFS (thats if u have Windows 2000 / XP + ) to see the rest of it. 32 GB is the limit for FAT32. If it doesn't like it, it wont be able to be external. Or replace it with an external case, that knows what NTFS is. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 518210 | 2007-01-22 04:31:00 | Or create a few more partitions. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 518211 | 2007-01-22 04:40:00 | I would try deleting the Fat32 partition and formatting it with NTFS via Windows. Go into control panel, administrative tools (you might need to enable Classic View), computer management, and select Disk Management. Make SURE you're working with the right disk (not your main hard drive!), and create a new partition which you will then format with NTFS. | george12 (7) | ||
| 518212 | 2007-01-22 06:15:00 | You'll have to format it in NTFS (thats if u have Windows 2000 / XP + ) to see the rest of it. 32 GB is the limit for FAT32. NO it isn't!!! WinXP imposes a limit of 32Gb if you use it to format in FAT32. Partition using an older O/S. I have a 110GB FAT32 partition staring back at me right now. The reason they would say use FAT32 as opposed to NTFS is if you wanted to use the drive on older PCs - plug an NTFS drive into WIn98 and its not going to see it. www.windowsitpro.com FAT32 has a 2TB limit on partition size and www.allensmith.net |
pctek (84) | ||
| 518213 | 2007-01-22 06:58:00 | The reason they suggest that you format to FAT32 i to ensure your external HD can be read by comps running older versions of Windows. | Metla (12) | ||
| 518214 | 2007-01-22 13:28:00 | I would try deleting the Fat32 partition and formatting it with NTFS via Windows. Go into control panel, administrative tools (you might need to enable Classic View), computer management, and select Disk Management. Make SURE you're working with the right disk (not your main hard drive!), and create a new partition which you will then format with NTFS. I deleted the partition, now it just says 'Disk 1 - 31.49GB unallocated'. When I try to format a new partition it says 'maximum disk space (MB) - 32248' |
ham (11808) | ||
| 518215 | 2007-01-22 13:29:00 | Maxblast (free) will enable you to have large fat32 partitions. It will install and format any drive if there is a Maxtor drive somewhere on your system, even one connected by usb. Maxblast also comes under different names from other manufacturers. I find it especially useful for reinstalling a drive and making it like new drive-- just formatting doesn't remove the boot partition or any viruses lurking there. Fat32 is required for many data recovery programs in addition to older versions of windows, but if you're not using one of those just format as NTFS. |
RealBigDog (11623) | ||
| 518216 | 2007-01-22 16:36:00 | Or create a few more partitions. That's what I thought I was to do and was going to, but it doesnt give me the option. i104.photobucket.com |
ham (11808) | ||
| 518217 | 2007-01-22 16:38:00 | take a CAREFUL look at the harddrive itself.....physically I mean......on some models you can place the jumper so as to limit the drive to 32gb......maybe that's what you have done inadvertently ? | drcspy (146) | ||
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