I've been spending all morning trying to format my audio drive. I've been trying to do it using win2k's administrative tools, (FAT32 with 64k clusters). Everything seems to go alright untill it's done formatting (takes forever) when it tells me the volume is too large.

The drive is a WD120GB.

Ok guys.
Important update that I put on my tweak guide.
This pertains to formatting the secondary drive within XP.
It's important to format them as EXTENDED partitions and NOT PRIMARY!

So my audio drive is currently FAT32 and separate from my system drive, which is also FAT32. Because Logic does not like FAT32, I have been trying un-successfully to format to NTFS. I was also unsuccessful converting to NTFS, but I really want to format vs convert. I've had no luck working from XP or a command window. The following is the message I get:

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What formats do you guys mixdown to and why?
Is it DAT or CDR or tape or. .
Does anyone use an internal mixdown option i.e. audio export,if so what is the best dithering software?

Thanks
John

I know this is basic stuff to most of you, but I need to format a tape with timecode on my DA-88 with the SY-88 installed. Do I first have to "format" the tape as stated in the DA-88 manual and then stripe the time code? Or will striping timecode on an unformatted tape, format the tape?

Thanks.

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