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02/14/2007 09:02:38 AM · #1 |
I have a Databank and my HDD died. I bought another one and I don't know how to format it to make it work. Any help? I am using a laptop and connected the Databank HDD via USB. Any help?
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02/14/2007 09:35:52 AM · #2 |
OK. I did it. Thanks anyway. Sorry for posting but I was kind of worried as tomorrow I am heading to London on my Chinese New Year Holiday! Yuhuuuuuuuuu!
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02/14/2007 10:25:31 AM · #3 |
Ups seems that I need to format it FAT 32. Any idea how i do it with Win XP?
Thanks!
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02/14/2007 10:40:14 AM · #4 |
Uf sorry to bother you guys. Managed again. For other people interested a very nice tool: Swiss Knife
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02/14/2007 10:43:42 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by Tiberius:
Ups seems that I need to format it FAT 32. Any idea how i do it with Win XP?
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Plug the drive in... goto my computer under any 32 or 64 bit windows (95,98,98se,me,nt,2000,xp,2003,vista)
Right click on the drive goto format.
When the dialog is up select from Fat Fat32 or NTFS.
In the case the drive is over 32GB yeah ull run intot he problem where u cant select that utility and more is avliable
Message edited by author 2007-02-14 10:44:28. |
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02/14/2007 10:47:37 AM · #6 |
Thanks. The drive is 40G and all I had it was NTFS. The little software (freeware) did it super. Now I have 40G to shot in London!
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02/14/2007 10:56:05 AM · #7 |
Windows XP limits the fat32 format to 32GB back in 98 we could go up to 137GB the limitaion in 98 was the harddrive controllers could address past that with any file system. 2000 and XP go much further but sorta chose not to.
I think the limitation on Fat32 is 2 Terabytes or 2048 GB. This is only because the structure is signed an unsiged structure could possibly goto 4 Terabytes max in a 32 bit format.
The other thing is u can have two partitions and format them both one 32GB and the other 8 or two 20 GB partitions but thats stupid if u dont have to.
I remember my 2GB Fireball back in windows 3.1 had 5 partitions to cover the entire span. Fat16 dos6 and win 3.1 alogn with bios limitations limited us to 512mb partitions.
Message edited by author 2007-02-14 10:58:13. |
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