Re: Maxtor One Touch III



Jistan Idiot wrote:



Until I plug it back into the Windows box... Now aparently the WinXP
box thinks the drive is unalocated and wants me to add a partition to
it. It won't to more than 21GB as FAT32 and then subsquent partitions
seem to be limited to 8GB. Not really going to work.

I seem to recall that not being able to create FAT32 partitions greater than
some (now) small size is a deliberate 'feature' of XP. I think it can use
partions that are larger but not format them. Google may shed some light.

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