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| Thread ID: 70507 | 2006-07-05 19:16:00 | Formatting a 250GB external usb 2 hard drive to FAT32 | egg (10669) | Press F1 |
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| 468870 | 2006-07-07 11:51:00 | http://fdisk.radified.com/ The downloadable pdf is very good. radified.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 468871 | 2006-07-07 11:57:00 | these appear to be pre windows xp specific, are there any for windows xp? They are used before you load Windows so it doesn't matter that they are not specifically for Windows XP. You run them from a floppy disk to do the partitioning and formatting. |
FoxyMX (5) | ||
| 468872 | 2006-07-12 06:51:00 | Sorry to hijack the thread, but it is sort of related. I had to get a new external harddrive after the old one died. It's 80gb. I use it to store data and so I can use just the one email account at both home and work. It used to work perfectly on the old harddrive, but now I can't get it working. My ex-boyfriend set it up before. Now whenever I plug it in at work, most of the time the drive isn't recognized. Or when it is working, I keep getting error messages saying it can't write to the drive. Also, it keeps dropping the assigned drive letter. I'm using it on two machines, both running Windows XP. It works fine at home, main problems are with the work machine. I think part of the problem is that I formatted to NTFS rather than Fat32. Could this be the problem? If so, will it be fixed if I format for Fat32 and if I do that, from reading the above messages, do I need to partition into certain sized drives? Any help appreciated, as you can tell, I need all I can get. Cheers, Laren |
laren (10670) | ||
| 468873 | 2006-07-12 09:17:00 | Just to clarify, it is the updated FDISK that will allow more than 32GB but you will need to keep them less than 137GB or Scandisk and Defrag will corrupt the data on partitions greater than 137GB. In fact my friend has a partition of 200Gb in FAT32. Hasn't had any data corruption in the year he's been using it. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 468874 | 2006-07-12 09:24:00 | Sorry to hijack the thread, but it is sort of related . I had to get a new external harddrive after the old one died . It's 80gb . I use it to store data and so I can use just the one email account at both home and work . It used to work perfectly on the old harddrive, but now I can't get it working . My ex-boyfriend set it up before . Now whenever I plug it in at work, most of the time the drive isn't recognized . Or when it is working, I keep getting error messages saying it can't write to the drive . Also, it keeps dropping the assigned drive letter . I'm using it on two machines, both running Windows XP . It works fine at home, main problems are with the work machine . I think part of the problem is that I formatted to NTFS rather than Fat32 . Could this be the problem? If so, will it be fixed if I format for Fat32 and if I do that, from reading the above messages, do I need to partition into certain sized drives? Any help appreciated, as you can tell, I need all I can get . Cheers, Laren Have you got limited access, on the work computer?? Do you own the computer at work?? Is anything disabled on the computer at work? This maybe the prob, if you havent got Admin rights . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 468875 | 2006-07-13 02:12:00 | Have you got limited access, on the work computer?? Do you own the computer at work?? Is anything disabled on the computer at work? This maybe the prob, if you havent got Admin rights . Yep, the machine at work is pretty locked down (can't even install fonts) . But, I was using the same machine with the old hard drive, no problems at all . With the old one, just plugged into the USB port and everything worked fine, no setup required . That's why I think the problem may be the set up of the actual external harddrive . I could be wrong, like I said, I'm no expert . Also, they could have changed the configurations on the machine, they do like to fiddle . Cheers, Laren |
laren (10670) | ||
| 468876 | 2006-07-14 05:30:00 | If XP on the works pc has been installed on a FAT32 partition, I don't believe that it will be able to read a NTFS partition/disk. In which case you will have to reformat your drive to FAT32 if you want to use it at work. As for the partition size, XP (FAT32 or NTFS) can handle very large partitions/disks. The limits mentioned previously would only apply if you want to be able to boot from that disk. |
What Do I Know? (10671) | ||
| 468877 | 2006-07-14 05:40:00 | It's quite likely that the system administrators have locked it down completely . USB connections are a major security "opportunity" . I have an idea that it might not be considered proper use of a company computer to attach your own disk . Do you have permission to do this? It might not be a career-enhancing action if not . Some companies have had customer lists, and other confidential information stolen by such methods . The filesystem on which XP is installed doesn't matter . It will be able to read and write to NTFS drives . The fact that it's refusing to write indicates that there might be some restriction . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 468878 | 2006-08-02 02:16:00 | It's quite likely that the system administrators have locked it down completely . USB connections are a major security "opportunity" . I have an idea that it might not be considered proper use of a company computer to attach your own disk . Do you have permission to do this? It might not be a career-enhancing action if not . Some companies have had customer lists, and other confidential information stolen by such methods . The filesystem on which XP is installed doesn't matter . It will be able to read and write to NTFS drives . The fact that it's refusing to write indicates that there might be some restriction . Graham, I don't think the lockdown is data security as such, more not wanting people to install random software . Also, they want to cut back on IT support by having universal roleouts of systems so they can do remote support . Part of the reason I need this issue resolved is that I have people bringing me data I need and the most common form of delivery is USB memory stick or hard drive . I want to be able to use my drive because I need to work at home on large files and don't want to be burning CD's every five mintues, everytime a do an update to a file . The most frustrating part is that this all used to work seemlessly, until the new harddrive . Thanks again to everyone for your help, Cheers, Laren |
laren (10670) | ||
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