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Cooling Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Singapore
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Me getting 2 120gb hdds for raid 0.
Anyone know how to format such a big capacity in fat32? |
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Cooling Savant
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: SoCal, formerly Sweden.
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why don't you just use ntfs?
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Cooling Savant
Join Date: Aug 2001
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Try FDISK in DOS then FORMAT
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The Pro/Life Support System
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Umm Fat 32 can support like a 2 terrabyte disk cant it?
NTFS would be the way to go since FAT32 will be a DOG on a disk that big.
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Join Date: May 2001
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I could be wrong but I think fat32 may even go up to 2 exabytes. but I'm not sure since I've found a lot of wrong info in this A+ book
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The Pro/Life Support System
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Ummm no Fat32 is only up to 2 Terra.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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only 2 terbtyes??? well that just blows......i agree though drop fat32 and just use ntfs with 2k or xp (98 wont take ntfs just in case u didnt know)
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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put them into raid 0 in the controllors bios, put the windows cd in, and tell it t go to the array and format the array
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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Yeah, 2000 gigs for FAT32 and 4000 gigs for NTFS are the limits I believe.
If you want to use FAT32, you can use FDISK and Format. The sizes won't show up right. I believe that the programs wig out a bit over 64 gigs. They still work, they just don't show the full capacity. What you do is run FDISK, choose option 1, then choose option 1 again (use maximum available size and make it active). Prepare to be waiting a LONG time to format though. I think a 40 gig drive takes 20-30 minutes from experience, so figure about 6 times that or 2-3 hours. If you're using XP and NTFS, you could use the quick format option and format it in about 20-30 seconds. |
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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Make sure to update your BIOS. If you're having trouble getting it to recognize that size, your bios is probably the culprit.
Oh... Quote:
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The Pro/Life Support System
Join Date: Dec 1999
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if you run something 2TB big and ONLY use Fat32... you should be shot.
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Join Date: Mar 2002
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hahaha... that would be the day... fat32... crash every 30 seconds... corrupt bsods... all the time
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