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FAT32 formatting under W2K/WXP
Authored by: magir on Apr 08, '03 03:38:34AM
Microsoft has crippled W2K and WXP so that they can't format Fat32-Partitions bigger than 32 GB. As it seems they want to make their users use NTFS which is exactly the MS-Behaviour we all know. Both other platforms and older Windows-Version can't read it so they have to switch or upgrade :-(.
Anyway, you can either use Windows 9x or a toll written by a german computer magazine which can be downloaded here:
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2format.zip
By they way, they've also written a tool to control the acoustic management of IDE-Harddrives which usually makes them less noisy. The link is: ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/macaam12.sit
Sorry, the readme-files are german. To use h2format you have to have an unformatted partition which has already been mapped to a letter. Use the letter as a parameter for the h2format. Be cautious not to kill your data.

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