From: roland <for_spam_at_gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 23:27:37 +0200

Hi !
on win2k/Xp (only on them!) formatting(only that!) of fat32 volumes >32Gb is disabled "artificially" to encourage usage of ntfs for
big volumes. should have a positive effect because that will reduce the chance of a data loss. ntfs is (by far!) the more advanced
filesystem and i would always recommend using it, where you are able to use it.

you can use 3rd party tools if you want format fat32 filesystems on that platforms.
i would recommend using h2format for that - it`s free and you get it at
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2format.zip
unfortunately, docs is german only. but "default"-usage is simple: just type: h2format driveletter:
this is the only native 2000/xp freeware "big-fat32-format-tool" i have come across, so far.
does someone know others?

regards
roland


----- Original Message -----
From: "CombThins" <bmnews_at_blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <rockbox_at_cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: SOS - File System Error (No FAT16/32)


> > Get a recovery tool (IMO the best you can get is R-Studio at
> http://www.r-studio.com/#local ) to get you're
> > data off the drive, Then use Partition magic (much better then windows
> default stuff and it can format >20GB
> > FAT32 which windows cannot!)
>
> Somehow I've got a 27GB FAT32 partition I made with standard windows tools.
> Don't know what the limit is, but it doesn't seem to be 20GB.
>
> > These are some of those utilities I think everyone should go out and buy
> as they _WILL_ save your butt a
> > number of times, trust me.
>
> They can be useful, but for the average home user they won't get used from
> one year to the next. Better to make sure your butt doesn't need saving!
>
> For less than the cost of most recovery tools you can add more than enough
> disk space to a desktop machine to keep a complete backup of your Archos.
> The reason there are so many good disk recovery tools around is because so
> many people don't keep any backups.
>
>
Received on 2003-10-06