FAT32 formatting of 120 GB firewire drive(s)

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I just bought two 120 GB Western Digital Firewire drives
and connected them to a dual ide to firewire interface. I
am running Windows XP Pro and was able to only format them
as NTFS volumes because the Windows XP drive formatting
tool will only allow NTFS formatting. I have tried using
system boot disks (windows 98, millenium, XP)and fdisk but
the firewire drives are not recognized. Is there a way to
format these drives through firewire as FAT32 volumes???
 
Why do you want to format them as FAT32? Do you understand what the cluster size
would be? And the performance impact?

I just bought two 120 GB Western Digital Firewire drives
and connected them to a dual ide to firewire interface. I
am running Windows XP Pro and was able to only format them
as NTFS volumes because the Windows XP drive formatting
tool will only allow NTFS formatting. I have tried using
system boot disks (windows 98, millenium, XP)and fdisk but
the firewire drives are not recognized. Is there a way to
format these drives through firewire as FAT32 volumes???
 
Does the external drive have to be 32GB or more? As that's the max size XP
can format FAT32. If you need bigger FAT32 disks, you need to create them in
the other OS's

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One more thought, have you considered partitioning?

I just bought two 120 GB Western Digital Firewire drives
and connected them to a dual ide to firewire interface. I
am running Windows XP Pro and was able to only format them
as NTFS volumes because the Windows XP drive formatting
tool will only allow NTFS formatting. I have tried using
system boot disks (windows 98, millenium, XP)and fdisk but
the firewire drives are not recognized. Is there a way to
format these drives through firewire as FAT32 volumes???
 
Golem said:
I just bought two 120 GB Western Digital Firewire drives
and connected them to a dual ide to firewire interface. I
am running Windows XP Pro and was able to only format them
as NTFS volumes because the Windows XP drive formatting
tool will only allow NTFS formatting. I have tried using
system boot disks (windows 98, millenium, XP)and fdisk but
the firewire drives are not recognized. Is there a way to
format these drives through firewire as FAT32 volumes?
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You would have to divide them into four equal parts of 30 GB, which XP
will create and format as FAT32. But why the objection to using NTFS?
 
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