Nick Holland wrote:
Once your
partition exists, however, Windows can format it. I prefer to
format media with the native OS.
It may be worth noting that Windows Vista (and I believe XP SP2+) will
no longer format drives larger than 32gb as FAT/FAT32. If you have an
existing drive (less than 8TB) it'll work fine, but if you want to
reformat it Windows will insist on NTFS. Obviously, it's an artificial
limitation.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/184006
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm may help, it's a GPL
Windows format utility designed to work around this limitation.
