Topic: External Hd Work? (Read 87 times)

thepissedoffman · « **on:** December 04, 2006, 02:33:00 PM »

http://docs.google.c...cgqcqfk_0c59326

I don't know if this is true or not but I will be betting an external enclosure from work tomorrow to see.

SR388 · « **Reply #1 on:** December 04, 2006, 05:19:00 PM »

it doesn't work with the 2 thumbdrives that I tried (Sony 1gb Micro vault Tiny and a Metal 256mb scandisk)

ILLusions0fGrander · « **Reply #2 on:** December 04, 2006, 08:08:00 PM »

ive got a 250GB external, but i dont think i want to format it to FAT32

actually.. i dont think you can format a drive that large to fat32 can you?

throwingks · « **Reply #3 on:** December 04, 2006, 08:10:00 PM »

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In theory, this should support a total of approximately 268,435,438 (228) clusters, allowing for drive sizes in the range of 8 terabytes with 32K clusters. However, due to limitations in Microsoft's scandisk utility, the FAT is not allowed to grow beyond 4,177,920 (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 124.55 gigabytes, unless “scandisk” is not needed.[4]

http://support.micro...kb/184006/en-us

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• The maximum possible number of clusters on a volume using the FAT32 file system is 268,435,445. With a maximum of 32 KB per cluster with space for the file allocation table (FAT), this equates to a maximum disk size of approximately 8 terabytes (TB).

Maybe? I never tried it.

twistedsymphony · « **Reply #4 on:** December 05, 2006, 04:32:00 AM »

you can actually, I've got a 400GB drive in FAT32...

you can't however do it in Windows, you must do it through dos or some other means...

SR388 · « **Reply #5 on:** December 05, 2006, 12:21:00 PM »

nvmd, misinterpreted

thepissedoffman · « **Reply #6 on:** December 14, 2006, 10:06:00 AM »

I forgot about this thread.

I tried this and it did not work for me :-(

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