Re: usb 2 external hard drive

Howdy!

"Jim Howes" <sewoh.mij@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Bernard Peek wrote:
> > Bear in mind that NT4 and W2K use different versions of NTFS. IIRC if
> > you install an NT4 formatted disk in a W2K system it will silently
> > reformat the drive and you won't be able to go back to NT4.
>
> Another reason to use the lowest-common-denominator (i.e. FAT32)
filesystem.

Ahem. NT4 doesn't do FAT32 either - you're stuck at 2G FAT16
volumes.

>
> Does anyone know exactly why Win2K refuses to format disks above an
apparently
> purely arbitary limit (71Gb?) as FAT32, while Linux's mkdosfs (atleast
version
> 2.8) seems to be happy doing it.

32G, and because Microsoft made that decision.

There's no TECHNICAL reason, it's purely political.

RwP


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