Re: formating external USB hard drive

On Saturday 28 January 2006 6:05 pm, John Summerfied wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 15:03 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> >>I have a USB hard drive and 3 questions:
> >>
> >>1- I suppose that this hd is dos-formatted by default. Is it because
> >>this that I had a problem of file size limitation? I couldn't create a
> >>file more than 4.2Gb.
> >
> > I don't know the filesize limit for DOS, but I thought it was less than
>
> WinXP Home stopped at 2 Gb for fat32.

At the risk of sticking my foot in my mouth, something is not computing in
this discussion - I've probably missed a salient point, but, in case I
haven't --- I currently have a 160GB external USB drive connected to this
computer. It is formatted as FAT32. I just double checked. I also just copied
a big media file over to it and played it back with Kaffeine, and that worked
fine.

FAT32 size limitation is in the terrabytes with some caveats...
This is form the MS site:

In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32
volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you
must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP
Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other
operating systems.

I formatted my USB drive with qtparted. My apologies if I missed something in
the discussion, and I completely missed the point.
--
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA

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