Re: Format 500GB to FAT32

Jim wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:20:29 +0700, "Mark BR" <briley@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Still confused as to how it came formatted as FAT32 if there is this
restriction!

Thanks again.
Think if you use a dos box in XP you can use the format command to make a FAT32 disc that is bigger than the limit XP imposes. I seem to recall the limit is 120GB??

I WAS using the DOS prompt (XP's command prompt). It failed due
to this restriction.

Reformatted (a quick format) in NTFS from the right-click in
Windows Explorer.


XP command line interpreter is nothing like DOS, it is part of the monolithic OS (as an application) and not an OS that runs a GUI (as for DOS7 and Win98SE) :-) It uses the standard XP modules for disk access and therefore has the same limitations. NT based systems do not use BIOS modules for drives (apart from the boot sequence), treat all drives as SCSI (which has always been LBA) and will find all drives, even if set to none in the BIOS.

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