[SGVLUG] FileSystem Limitations?

[John Jefferson Lowry IV]

You have to assign a drive letter to it and, optionally, a volume label.

On 7/13/07, Mic Chow <zen at netten.net> wrote:
>
> So the thread about weapons and the results are interesting, but how
> about something different.
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> I am curious how do they commercially format large drives with the File
> System FAT32, specifically drives greater than 200 gigs.
>
> The situation is that I am help a friend recover data from an external
> drive.  I have recovered the data using my Linux box.  I have replaced
> it with another drive.  The new drive is also an external drive; both
> drives are EIDE in an USB enclosure.  The drive is 250 (marketing)
> Gigs.  This user would more than likely connect this drive to various
> systems, of course the predominant system with be some variation of
> Microsoft.  I used Ubuntu Linux to format the drive as a single
> partition with a FAT32 File System.  I intended this external drive to
> be the same easy connection as most commercial drives so that the user
> can connect it to any system, Microsoft, Mac, Linux, etc.  After
> formating the drive is seen in Linux as a single 250 Gig Partition in
> FAT32 just fine.  Data can be saved and deleted from the drive like it
> should.  However, on a Windows 2000 Pro or XP (SP2) box the drive is
> seen, but the File System is not understood.  I could easily chalk it of
> to stupidity of Microsoft and their attempts at File Systems.  Since
> they created FAT32 several years ago, you'd think they actually know how
> to read the damn thing.  So besides mounting the 250gig drive on the
> Windows box and reformatting it as NTFS what are my options.  I'd really
> like to know how companies such as Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital,
> IOmega, etc. format their drives and ship them out the door in FAT32.
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Mic
> North Hollywood, CA
> N34° 8'33.02"
> W118° 21'39.62"
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John Lowry
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