anonymous
3 May 2002
Quick question. I read the Win2000 optimization guide. From that I think the OS hardrive gets formatted NTFS(?) and the sound drive gets FAT32. The harddrives are Deskstar 120gxps. Tring to format the sound drive FAT32. I keep getting errors that say the volume is too big. Does Fat32 have some limitation? The drives are 40gig. I went ahead a formatted it as NTFS(?) to make sure that something worked. That worked fine.
Mark
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Here's how: Boot a Win98 boot disk fdisk and say "Y" for sup
Here's how:
Boot a Win98 boot disk
fdisk and say "Y" for support for large drives
Partition the whole drive
Reboot with Win98 boot disk
format D: /z:64
That will allow you use a larger drive formatted under FAT32. I currently do this to format my 60GB drives for my Win2000 DAW.
You know..I need to change that optimization guide on that aspec
You know..I need to change that optimization guide on that aspect. I reccomend going with NTFS for two reasons..
One...file security from internet hackers!
Two...if you accidentally erase data you can use a program called Restorer2000 or UndeletePro to recover those files!
There isnt any performance difference between the two anyways. NTFS it is!
FAT32 does have a 32GB limitation so that may be the issue at hand. You can format drives larger than 32GB as FAT32 but I can't remember what the issue was to get it to work properly.
Opus