does microsoft support 232 gb harddrive partitioned in fat32?

[nexus540]

I was not able to partition my lacie 232 gb harddrive to fat32 in
windows but I used linux instead (parted magic) and that worked but I
am really not liking windows right now cause it is really slow to
check it for errors compared to when I had it partition for mac os x.
I can not put it in ntfs because I won't be able to read/write in mac
os x and I do not want to use Macdrive software with windows.
when I was putting files on my lacie harddrive through mac for a while
then when I open to check if my files were ok when I click on the
folder named projects it changes it's name to My Documents which is
another folder on my harddrive and when I open either one of them with
the same name it has the same stuff in it instead of having one of
them having what my projects folder had in it but I just though it had
to do with fragmentation so I just defragmented my harddrive in
windows but I checked it for errors first.
When I open my hard disk in windows sometimes it closes it because of
DEP protection I already check for unwanted programs and activity on
my computer through highjackthis, process explorer, and tcpview to
check for unwanted connections. I use search sites like
processlibrary.com to see if any of the processes are unwanted and if
they do not come up in here I search google for it.
so I just assumed that it is ok so I turned off windows explorer DEP
protection but sometimes it still closes it. any ideas or help with my
problem will be much appreciated.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

nexus540 wrote:
> I was not able to partition my lacie 232 gb harddrive to fat32 in
> windows but I used linux instead (parted magic) and that worked but
> I am really not liking windows right now cause it is really slow to
> check it for errors compared to when I had it partition for mac os
> x. I can not put it in ntfs because I won't be able to read/write
> in mac os x and I do not want to use Macdrive software with windows.
> when I was putting files on my lacie harddrive through mac for a
> while then when I open to check if my files were ok when I click on
> the folder named projects it changes it's name to My Documents
> which is another folder on my harddrive and when I open either one
> of them with the same name it has the same stuff in it instead of
> having one of them having what my projects folder had in it but I
> just though it had to do with fragmentation so I just defragmented
> my harddrive in windows but I checked it for errors first.
> When I open my hard disk in windows sometimes it closes it because
> of DEP protection I already check for unwanted programs and
> activity on my computer through highjackthis, process explorer, and
> tcpview to check for unwanted connections. I use search sites like
> processlibrary.com to see if any of the processes are unwanted and
> if they do not come up in here I search google for it.
> so I just assumed that it is ok so I turned off windows explorer DEP
> protection but sometimes it still closes it. any ideas or help with
> my problem will be much appreciated.

Windows XP will read FAT32 partitions of whatever size you wish to make.
However - Windows XP will only natively format paritions up to 32GB with the
FAT32 file system. NTFS is a much better choice for many reasons for drives
larger than that. The only reason to use FAT32 is cross-compatibility with
older/other OSes. As you know.

I tried to read your 6 sentences above and understand what the problem is -
but I have not. It really sounds like more of a driver/hardware issue to me
if I am even reading into all that correctly.

First - make sure you have the latest Windows XP based drivers for all the
components in your computer straight from the hardware manufacturer of each
product. Pay particular attention to the motherboard/chipset driver. After
that - you may want to use a different tool to format the external drive
with FAT32.

Format larger than 32GB FAT32 within Windows XP with this utility:
http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/

Same idea as before - but it may help that you are doing it from within
Windows (May not - but you have nothing to lose.)

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

 

[nexus540]

On Oct 25, 7:34 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> nexus540 wrote:
> > I was not able to partition my lacie 232 gb harddrive to fat32 in
> > windows but I used linux instead (parted magic) and that worked but
> > I am really not liking windows right now cause it is really slow to
> > check it for errors compared to when I had it partition for mac os
> > x. I can not put it in ntfs because I won't be able to read/write
> > in mac os x and I do not want to use Macdrive software with windows.
> > when I was putting files on my lacie harddrive through mac for a
> > while then when I open to check if my files were ok when I click on
> > the folder named projects it changes it's name to My Documents
> > which is another folder on my harddrive and when I open either one
> > of them with the same name it has the same stuff in it instead of
> > having one of them having what my projects folder had in it but I
> > just though it had to do with fragmentation so I just defragmented
> > my harddrive in windows but I checked it for errors first.
> > When I open my hard disk in windows sometimes it closes it because
> > of DEP protection I already check for unwanted programs and
> > activity on my computer through highjackthis, process explorer, and
> > tcpview to check for unwanted connections. I use search sites like
> > processlibrary.com to see if any of the processes are unwanted and
> > if they do not come up in here I search google for it.
> > so I just assumed that it is ok so I turned off windows explorer DEP
> > protection but sometimes it still closes it. any ideas or help with
> > my problem will be much appreciated.
>
> Windows XP will read FAT32 partitions of whatever size you wish to make.
> However - Windows XP will only natively format paritions up to 32GB with the
> FAT32 file system. NTFS is a much better choice for many reasons for drives
> larger than that. The only reason to use FAT32 is cross-compatibility with
> older/other OSes. As you know.
>
> I tried to read your 6 sentences above and understand what the problem is -
> but I have not. It really sounds like more of a driver/hardware issue to me
> if I am even reading into all that correctly.
>
> First - make sure you have the latest Windows XP based drivers for all the
> components in your computer straight from the hardware manufacturer of each
> product. Pay particular attention to the motherboard/chipset driver. After
> that - you may want to use a different tool to format the external drive
> with FAT32.
>
> Format larger than 32GB FAT32 within Windows XP with this utility:
> http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/
>
> Same idea as before - but it may help that you are doing it from within
> Windows (May not - but you have nothing to lose.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

sorry that my questions confuse you I am not vary good at Grammar and
writing but I am somewhat fast with typing but that does not help my
writing problem. maybe I will try to take more time with writing my
questions first.

 

[wng_z3r0]

By the way, the amount of hard drive space you lose to slack is going to be
cost-prohibitive. My guess is you're losing about 30-50% of your hard drive
due to slack depending on the data.

wng
"nexus540" <Nexus540@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1193526684.567936.178590@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 25, 7:34 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> nexus540 wrote:
>> > I was not able to partition my lacie 232 gb harddrive to fat32 in
>> > windows but I used linux instead (parted magic) and that worked but
>> > I am really not liking windows right now cause it is really slow to
>> > check it for errors compared to when I had it partition for mac os
>> > x. I can not put it in ntfs because I won't be able to read/write
>> > in mac os x and I do not want to use Macdrive software with windows.
>> > when I was putting files on my lacie harddrive through mac for a
>> > while then when I open to check if my files were ok when I click on
>> > the folder named projects it changes it's name to My Documents
>> > which is another folder on my harddrive and when I open either one
>> > of them with the same name it has the same stuff in it instead of
>> > having one of them having what my projects folder had in it but I
>> > just though it had to do with fragmentation so I just defragmented
>> > my harddrive in windows but I checked it for errors first.
>> > When I open my hard disk in windows sometimes it closes it because
>> > of DEP protection I already check for unwanted programs and
>> > activity on my computer through highjackthis, process explorer, and
>> > tcpview to check for unwanted connections. I use search sites like
>> > processlibrary.com to see if any of the processes are unwanted and
>> > if they do not come up in here I search google for it.
>> > so I just assumed that it is ok so I turned off windows explorer DEP
>> > protection but sometimes it still closes it. any ideas or help with
>> > my problem will be much appreciated.
>>
>> Windows XP will read FAT32 partitions of whatever size you wish to make.
>> However - Windows XP will only natively format paritions up to 32GB with
>> the
>> FAT32 file system. NTFS is a much better choice for many reasons for
>> drives
>> larger than that. The only reason to use FAT32 is cross-compatibility
>> with
>> older/other OSes. As you know.
>>
>> I tried to read your 6 sentences above and understand what the problem
>> is -
>> but I have not. It really sounds like more of a driver/hardware issue to
>> me
>> if I am even reading into all that correctly.
>>
>> First - make sure you have the latest Windows XP based drivers for all
>> the
>> components in your computer straight from the hardware manufacturer of
>> each
>> product. Pay particular attention to the motherboard/chipset driver.
>> After
>> that - you may want to use a different tool to format the external drive
>> with FAT32.
>>
>> Format larger than 32GB FAT32 within Windows XP with this utility:
>> http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/
>>
>> Same idea as before - but it may help that you are doing it from within
>> Windows (May not - but you have nothing to lose.)
>>
>> --
>> Shenan Stanley
>> MS-MVP
>> --
>> How To Ask Questions The Smart
>> Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> sorry that my questions confuse you I am not vary good at Grammar and
> writing but I am somewhat fast with typing but that does not help my
> writing problem. maybe I will try to take more time with writing my
> questions first.
>

 

[Kerry Brown]

"wng_z3r0" <wng_z3r0@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:A8CBB296-EA8F-43EE-9F38-998B48ECD094@microsoft.com...
> By the way, the amount of hard drive space you lose to slack is going to
> be cost-prohibitive. My guess is you're losing about 30-50% of your hard
> drive due to slack depending on the data.


The other problem with FAT32 is the 4 GB file size limit. Files larger than
4 GB are becoming quite common.

--
Kerry Brown
Microsoft MVP - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

 

[nexus540]

On Oct 25, 7:34 pm, "Shenan Stanley" <newshel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> nexus540 wrote:
> > I was not able to partition my lacie 232 gb harddrive to fat32 in
> > windows but I used linux instead (parted magic) and that worked but
> > I am really not liking windows right now cause it is really slow to
> > check it for errors compared to when I had it partition for mac os
> > x. I can not put it in ntfs because I won't be able to read/write
> > in mac os x and I do not want to use Macdrive software with windows.
> > when I was putting files on my lacie harddrive through mac for a
> > while then when I open to check if my files were ok when I click on
> > the folder named projects it changes it's name to My Documents
> > which is another folder on my harddrive and when I open either one
> > of them with the same name it has the same stuff in it instead of
> > having one of them having what my projects folder had in it but I
> > just though it had to do with fragmentation so I just defragmented
> > my harddrive in windows but I checked it for errors first.
> > When I open my hard disk in windows sometimes it closes it because
> > of DEP protection I already check for unwanted programs and
> > activity on my computer through highjackthis, process explorer, and
> > tcpview to check for unwanted connections. I use search sites like
> > processlibrary.com to see if any of the processes are unwanted and
> > if they do not come up in here I search google for it.
> > so I just assumed that it is ok so I turned off windows explorer DEP
> > protection but sometimes it still closes it. any ideas or help with
> > my problem will be much appreciated.
>
> Windows XP will read FAT32 partitions of whatever size you wish to make.
> However - Windows XP will only natively format paritions up to 32GB with the
> FAT32 file system. NTFS is a much better choice for many reasons for drives
> larger than that. The only reason to use FAT32 is cross-compatibility with
> older/other OSes. As you know.
>
> I tried to read your 6 sentences above and understand what the problem is -
> but I have not. It really sounds like more of a driver/hardware issue to me
> if I am even reading into all that correctly.
>
> First - make sure you have the latest Windows XP based drivers for all the
> components in your computer straight from the hardware manufacturer of each
> product. Pay particular attention to the motherboard/chipset driver. After
> that - you may want to use a different tool to format the external drive
> with FAT32.
>
> Format larger than 32GB FAT32 within Windows XP with this utility:
> http://www1.mager.org/mkdosfs/
>
> Same idea as before - but it may help that you are doing it from within
> Windows (May not - but you have nothing to lose.)
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Wayhttp://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

well my motherboard is some hp brand well that's what comes up with
everest.
I keep everything on my computer up to date like drivers for my
graphics card, windows updates, java, and all of the apps I use.