Format USB HD

[Scott Allen]

On Tue Aug 05,2008 10:40:35 AM Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Actually windows CAN use FAT32 larger than 30GB.  It just
> won't create one.  Just thank Microsoft for knowing better
> than you what you want.
> 
> You can make a large FAT32 filesystem using linux and windows
> will happily use it.

A few months ago I formatted a 160G external USB drive as FAT32 and 
have no problems using it with Windows XP and Linux.

I seem to recall that I had trouble using Linux to do the formatting, 
though. I can't remember why, and afterwards I came to the conclusion 
that it should have worked and I just did some minor thing wrong. I 
wish I could remember what it was :-( .

Anyway, thinking back, I believe I followed the the instructions on 
the following page (thus using Windows to do the formatting).
<http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm>


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