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Posted by wng_z3r0 on October 29, 2007, 1:19 am
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cost-prohibitive. My guess is you're losing about 30-50% of your hard drive
due to slack depending on the data.
wng
>> 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.
>
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