Re: vfat not seen by Vista

Chris wrote:

Also, I asked in this "Linux forum" (as you put it) because the partition
was formated using a Linux tool. I thought perhaps I was missing some
secret magical switch to mkfs or option in Yast.

If I cannot find the "right way" to format using vfat so that Vista will
like it, then I will have to reformat using Vista.

Using WindowsXP, you cannot format a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB. Windows will work with much larger FAT32 partitions, and I have one of 70GB which I share between several Linux distros and WindowsXP. I used a basic DOS boot-disk to format it. It shows in all Linux distros as vfat, and I can read/write with no problems.

I don't know about Vista, but the restriction in XP was to encourage the use of NTFS.

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