Re: vfat not seen by Vista

class_a wrote:

To format the entire HD as a single Fat32 device I had to use
the Maxtor disk partitioning tool. That is what made it visible in both
operating systems. Maybe the Maxtor partitioning tools doesn't have the
bugs you mention in XP? Just a thought.

The mere partitioning uses sector I/O, which is not related to any file system. The trouble can start with an attempt to mount the file system.

Yes, I know it would make more sense to have the drive split into a few
partitions, but it's purely for storage so I don't really care :)

Nobody must care, as long as everything works as expected ;-)

But consider what e.g. a wrap-around error in the cluster-sector mapper can cause to your previously recorded data.

DoDi
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