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I have a 40gig hard drive which I wish to format as FAT32 so that windows and linux can both write to that drive. Windows seems to limit formatting of fat32 to 32gb. Any idea how to fix that, cos I want it as only one partition

use a third party partitioning tool. I have one I can give you, but don't know whether it will cope with a partition that size.

I once had an 80GB hard drive with a single FAT32 partition for the whole 80GB, so it does work. Try using the formatter in Windows XP (Computer Management console)

Well here is the thing, I want to get a partable hard drive. But I am not sure what type to get. I have four chooses, as I see it.

Usb drives

This is very small and doent need for power supplier but hard drive is a bit small for the price.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=84864

Bit more, but 20gbs more and bit bigger and not that much information on the internet, which worries me
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=90671


Nas drives

This is a usb and Nas drive, giving the opition to do both. Being a network hard drive, can be used by any computer on the network or and computer with usb. But at 80gig and power supply, not really the same as the first two.
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=87150


The second opition, is a bit to much money really but it is a wonderful life. It is a NAS drive, but 120gb. It use a linux kernal and has 2 usbs on the front, to connect other usb hard drives and printer (acts a printer server). I believe it can be modded to be a wireless access point as well.

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/products ... _uid=60265


Any thoughts intereting options

I've got an external hard disk. A 1998 maxtor 20 gig hard disk. not for sale. but does anyone have any idea why linux doesn't recognise it when plugged into firewire?

PS. The glue and elecrical tape don't seem to be the problem.

I can only think some sort of driver problem...

UPDATE: Neither does windows, on two seperate machines. 1 * xp pro 64 bit, 1 * windows server 2003 SP1.

Tried it on another machine?

Think I actually read? Or can read?

Are the drive and the adapter seperate(able)? If so, try testing themn seperately (i.e. firewire adapter with a known working drive, drive in a known working machine).

I only have one firewire device/cable, which makes it a bit difficult. It's not really a big problem, except i don't have many USB ports. I can't seperate the adapter and the drive (think of the superglue and the broken off screw in the casing).

FAT32 was introduced with Windows 95 OSR2, although reformatting was needed to use it, and DriveSpace 3 (the version that came with Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98) never supported it.

Andrew Smith
Business Analyst
Data Recovery Software