You have to assign a drive letter to it and, optionally, a volume label.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mic Chow</b> <<a href="mailto:zen@netten.net">zen@netten.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So the thread about weapons and the results are interesting, but how<br>about something different.
<br><br>I am curious how do they commercially format large drives with the File<br>System FAT32, specifically drives greater than 200 gigs.<br><br>The situation is that I am help a friend recover data from an external<br>
drive. I have recovered the data using my Linux box. I have replaced<br>it with another drive. The new drive is also an external drive; both<br>drives are EIDE in an USB enclosure. The drive is 250 (marketing)<br>Gigs. This user would more than likely connect this drive to various
<br>systems, of course the predominant system with be some variation of<br>Microsoft. I used Ubuntu Linux to format the drive as a single<br>partition with a FAT32 File System. I intended this external drive to<br>be the same easy connection as most commercial drives so that the user
<br>can connect it to any system, Microsoft, Mac, Linux, etc. After<br>formating the drive is seen in Linux as a single 250 Gig Partition in<br>FAT32 just fine. Data can be saved and deleted from the drive like it<br>should. However, on a Windows 2000 Pro or XP (SP2) box the drive is
<br>seen, but the File System is not understood. I could easily chalk it of<br>to stupidity of Microsoft and their attempts at File Systems. Since<br>they created FAT32 several years ago, you'd think they actually know how
<br>to read the damn thing. So besides mounting the 250gig drive on the<br>Windows box and reformatting it as NTFS what are my options. I'd really<br>like to know how companies such as Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital,
<br>IOmega, etc. format their drives and ship them out the door in FAT32.<br><br>Thanks in Advance.<br><br>Mic<br>North Hollywood, CA<br>N34° 8'33.02"<br>W118° 21'39.62"<br><br><br><br></blockquote></div>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>John Lowry<br><br>