You could attach the USB drive to a Windows 7 machine, format
(initialize?) it there, then move it for use next to your XP machine.

I confess that I used manufacturers' 4k formatting tools, but 
it was tedious.

>Hi all, it looks like getting a big external drive for my old XP box
>is going to be more complicated than I had been expecting.
>
>Just curious: do any of you have 4k sector drive attached via USB to Win XP?
>

-- 
happy
Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm

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