I should have done a little more checking before I jumped in here. It appears that it is the native formatting tools of xp and 2000 that are the limiting factor for fat32 partition creation of 32GB. There are some other limitations which are talked about in MS KB articles. It looks like you can read and write larger partitions under these OS's, just not create them. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Joe Clever Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 3:22 PM To: 'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.' Subject: RE: 200 gb hdd partitions I believe that windows xp and 2000 only support fat32 partitions of maximum 32GB. I have been wrestling with this problem with a 160GB USB drive, and just stumbled across this limitation. I was experiencing all kinds of bizarre problems with partitioning and which OS could recognize it. -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 2:19 PM To: Speakup Mailing-list Subject: 200 gb hdd partitions -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Speaking of partitions. I have a 200 gb hdd which I'd like to format as fat32 so that I can read/write to and from Linux and Windows. Is it safe to partition such a large size as one partition or should I break it down to smaller ones like perhaps 2 or 3 partitions for the whole drive? Thanks. - -- Raul A. Gallegos - http://www.asmodean.net All outgoing E-Mail is PGP-signed so that you know it really came from me and not a virus. Public key at: http://asmodean.net/raul-pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAsOsias0vKmIuNMcRAm0OAKCs3jIYPfvrFCRDLPogLgzl9vPXKwCfc14s 9PTmmc4P2y/YM3nCFcKlZkk= =ie0I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
