Fat 32 & External Hdd

[mechanical]

I formatted my one 80g hdd to Fat 32 with swissknife & then put it into my hdd enclosure,but now xp is not picking up my external hdd.What's the problem?Any suggestions?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Right-click My Computer, go to Manage, go to Disk Management and see if it's there.

If it is, chances are drive letters are clashing.

I think XP won't see 80Gb FAT32 partitions.

 

[medicnick83]

If it is, chances are drive letters are clashing.

This happens to me so often

And... NTFS FTW buddy!

 

[mechanical]

Did the disk manegment route,but nothing showed

 

[medicnick83]

Is everything connected properly, including inside the casing?

When you connect it, does windows find it, install it etc?

Can you hear it spin up?

Maybe the casing is fawlty!

 

[LandyMan]

Right-click My Computer, go to Manage, go to Disk Management and see if it's there.

If it is, chances are drive letters are clashing.

I think XP won't see 80Gb FAT32 partitions.

I have a 500Gb FAT32 partition in an external enclosure, and works fine on Mac, XP and Vista. I think it might be an enclosure problem ... or even the USB cable that's dodgy ... I've had that before

 

[mechanical]

Ok,will check

 

[The_Unbeliever]

I would rather go with NTFS than FAT32 as FAT32 wastes a lot of HDD space, and isn't as fault-tolerant as NTFS.

 

[The_Unbeliever]

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partFAT32-c.html

and also

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/140365

This shows that FAT32 simply wastes a lot of space.

 

[LazyLion]

lol... ok guys cool it with the NTFS thingy. We all know that. He is probably using FAT32 because DVD recorders can only read FAT 32 partitions on an external USB device. I hope.

 

[LazyLion]

I formatted my one 80g hdd to Fat 32 with swissknife & then put it into my hdd enclosure,but now xp is not picking up my external hdd.What's the problem?Any suggestions?

Try formatting it with WinXP's own format command, or through the Disk Management console. WinXP often does not like Partitions or File Systems that were not created by a Microsoft Tool.

 

[JustAsk]

Try formatting it with WinXP's own format command, or through the Disk Management console. WinXP often does not like Partitions or File Systems that were not created by a Microsoft Tool.

Then he'll can only make 32gb partitions.The whole purpose of using swissknife is to fat32 the whole drive as one partition.

You need to format you drive IN the enclosure and everything will work fine.

 

[LazyLion]

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