A simple answer would be use NTFS - a far superior file system, and as it is for camera backup purposes, should be fine.
But a couple of observations: The 32Gb limit on formatting FAT32 partitions in 2k and XP is not a bug. It's there by design to discourage the use of FAT32 when NTFS is available. Running FDISK and MBR will not touch your RAID setup, as you are referring to an external drive, are you not? Cheers ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia http://westserve.org - blog, Christian and tech stuff. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GP > Sent: Tuesday, 16 August 2005 10:37 AM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] FAT32 Question > > At 11:47 AM 8/15/2005, W. D. wrote: > >Not FAT32--Max is 2 Terabytes: > >http://tinyurl.com/bmzvx > > > >More likely, it's a limitation of the firmware of the hard drive. > >Did you "fdisk" the drive? Fdisk allows for partitioning of the > >drive, as well as viewing what partitions already exist. > > > >If you are starting fresh, you might want to: > > > >fdisk /MBR > > > >That will trash the current master boot record. Go back into > >fdisk and clean out any partitions, and start anew. After > >partitioning, then format the disk however you want. > > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=master+boot+record+usb+hard+drive > > Thanks for the info and links. Well I don't want to run "fdisk /MBR" that > will destroy my SATA RAID0 setup. > It's a portable 2.5" 40Gb USB drive, and I use it as my camera memory backup.
