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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: > 32 GB?Re: > 32 GB?
From: George Styles <george_at_ripnet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:54:17 -0000 I think that WinNT/XP/2000 will only allow you to create a 32gig partition, as M$ wants to encourage people to use NTFS for large drives. I have read that Win98 allows you to create Fat32 partitions of any size of available hdd I had to use a special utility (i forget the name) to format my new 40gig Archos drive as Fat32 on Win2000 g ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Daubenspeck" <matt_at_oddprocess.org> To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:06 PM Subject: Re: > 32 GB? > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 02:07:31PM +0100, Harald Milz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this may have been discussed before but I couldn't find anything in the ML > > archives or the FAQ. > > > > AFAIK FAT32 only supports 32GB partitions. Now that 60GB disks are > > available how's that going to be handled? My AJB6k has a 30GB Toshiba disk > > right now, with just 3,odd GB left and filling up. Will/does Rockbox > > support partitions bigger than 32GB, ar would I need to make 2 <32GB > > partitions or something? > > Not true. The windows (ugh) formatting system only has support for > CREATING up to 32GB partitions, but it can certainly read/write on > larger drives/partitions. > Received on 2002-12-30 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |