- XP: Fmt FAT32 on 2nd drive
- Posted by FrogOnLine on October 25th, 2005
fdisk sees 80GB 2nd hard drive only as 10 GB. I want to format it as FAT32
so I can put GHOST image on it and accesss it in emergency by booting on
floppy. 1st drive is NTFS & only allows NTFS when I use Disk Manager to
create partition on 2nd drive.
- Posted by Ron Martell on October 25th, 2005
"FrogOnLine" <FrogOnLine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>fdisk sees 80GB 2nd hard drive only as 10 GB. I want to format it as FAT32
>so I can put GHOST image on it and accesss it in emergency by booting on
>floppy. 1st drive is NTFS & only allows NTFS when I use Disk Manager to
>create partition on 2nd drive.
Windows XP will not create or format FAT32 partitions larger than 32
gb.
It will, however, use larger FAT32 partitions provided they are
created and formatted by some other means.
Use a Windows 98 or Windows Me startup boot disk (or download an image
to create one from www.bootdisk.com). Boot your computer with that
and use FDISK and FORMAT to prepare your 80 gb drive for use.
When you reboot into Windows XP you should see the full 80 gb disk
available for use.
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
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- Posted by FrogOnLine on October 25th, 2005
>"Ron Martell" wrote:
>"FrogOnLine" <FrogOnLine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>fdisk sees 80GB 2nd hard drive only as 10 GB. I want to format it as FAT32
> >so I can put GHOST image on it and accesss it in emergency by booting on
> >floppy. 1st drive is NTFS & only allows NTFS when I use Disk Manager to
> >create partition on 2nd drive.
>
> Windows XP will not create or format FAT32 partitions larger than 32
> gb.
>
> It will, however, use larger FAT32 partitions provided they are
> created and formatted by some other means.
>
> Use a Windows 98 or Windows Me startup boot disk (or download an image
> to create one from www.bootdisk.com). Boot your computer with that
> and use FDISK and FORMAT to prepare your 80 gb drive for use.
>
> When you reboot into Windows XP you should see the full 80 gb disk
> available for use.
>
> Good luck
>
> Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
> --
> Microsoft MVP
> On-Line Help Computer Service
> http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
Thanks for your reply Ron. However, I did boot from a Win98 floppy (as I've
done in past) but fdisk showed only one partition at 10GB. As a 2nd drv in
XP it saw it as 80GB. I even booted with it as the only drive. Before I
deleted the partitions, it was a functioning Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE
from same computer. The computer is a Dell Dimension 1.8GHz -not that old.
So I should be able to see the entire hard drive in fdisk, right? And I
should be able to make one or more partitions up to about 80GB shouldn't I?
I'm beginning to question my memory.
I bought a new identical WD 80GB and prepared and loaded it from XP CD and
it works fine.
- Posted by cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) on October 26th, 2005
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:08:36 -0700, Ron Martell
>"FrogOnLine" <FrogOnLine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>fdisk sees 80GB 2nd hard drive only as 10 G
Yes, Win95 and Win98 FDisk gets this bug over 50G or so (40G OK, 60G
not OK). There was a fixed FDisk available from MS, and WinME's FDisk
is OK, but even these fail to accept or properly display capacities
over 99G properly (value text length error). FDisk fails > 137 G too.
>Windows XP will not create or format FAT32 partitions larger than 32G
Yup. Uselesser and uselesser.
>It will, however, use larger FAT32 partitions provided they are
>created and formatted by some other means.
www.bootitng.com - don't install to HD as boot manager, just use it as
the compitent partitioner and formatter MS should have provided.
>Use a Windows 98 or Windows Me startup boot disk (or download an image
>to create one from www.bootdisk.com). Boot your computer with that
>and use FDISK and FORMAT to prepare your 80 gb drive for use.
Unless it's the "fixed" Win98 FDisk, it won't be OK for 80G.
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- Posted by Ron Martell on October 30th, 2005
"FrogOnLine" <FrogOnLine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>Thanks for your reply Ron. However, I did boot from a Win98 floppy (as I've
>done in past) but fdisk showed only one partition at 10GB. As a 2nd drv in
>XP it saw it as 80GB. I even booted with it as the only drive. Before I
>deleted the partitions, it was a functioning Western Digital Caviar 80GB IDE
>from same computer. The computer is a Dell Dimension 1.8GHz -not that old.
>So I should be able to see the entire hard drive in fdisk, right? And I
>should be able to make one or more partitions up to about 80GB shouldn't I?
>I'm beginning to question my memory.
>I bought a new identical WD 80GB and prepared and loaded it from XP CD and
>it works fine.
Your Win98 boot disk has the "old" version of FDISK which cannot
handle the larger new drives. You need to get the updated FDISK from
http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044 or use a WindowsMe Startup
Disk (which has the updated version).
Good luck
Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca
In memory of a dear friend Alex Nichol MVP
http://aumha.org/alex.htm
