Now you have a drive letter, this is what we will pass to the formatter There will be a dialog box, summarising all the previous stuff.Enter the maximum size for the Partition Size.Partition Wizard starts, just click next to move on.Right click on it and select "New Partition"Īnd follow these steps, clicking "Next" to get move on at each stage. You need to find the disk with unallocated space. If it asks you to initialise the disk, make sure you select a Basic disk, as opposed to a Dynamic. USB and Firewire ones can be connected with the power on.Ĭlick Start menu, select Run and enter diskmgmt.msc If you have a IDE or SATA disk, make sure you power off before connecting, Power off the computer and connect the disk. I've tested this with a SATA disk as follows. XP comes with a partitioning tool, called Disk Management. FAT32 itselft should be OK to 2TB, limited by a 32 bit sector count Is a limit of the formatter in Windows XP. Is pretty simple, so it occured to me to write a fast format routine to do the job. It also uses funny cluster sizes, only 4K for normal sized disks.Īctually, looking back at the Microsoft comment, if I could format the volume myself, all would be OK. I tried it, and chkdsk complained about being unable to There is a port of mkdosfs from Linux to Win32. It canīe done, but basically, this is ancient 16 bit code, and using it on modern hardware is not a good idea. Even then scandisk willĬorrupt large disks unless you disable it. It suports IDE, but not 48bit LBA, which is required for drives greater than 137GB.Īlso, you need to patch format.exe and fdisk to work with disks greater than 64GB. Using Windows 98 obviously opens up other issues - It doesn't support USB 2.0 or SATA as far as I know. Start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format Need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup.
Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows
In fact, NTFSĬan only be written safely by Windows XP - there are as far as I know no other drivers for other OS's, unlikeįAT which is supported by virtually anything. I could use NTFS, but that's not what I FATlib supports. It turns out that Windows XP won't let youįormat a volume bigger than 32GB with FAT32. I recently got a SATA 250GB disk for testing FATLIB. Note If you find fat32format a bit fiddly to use or these instructions a bit hard to follow you should
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