formattaing messages

[the professor]

when I try and format a had drive over 100g i get the
message Volume Size to big...2000pro, all fixes.. does the
same on my Win98se machine...latest bios in both
computers... external WD usb combo drive..

 

[R. C. White]

Hi, Professor.

You're NOT trying to format that big volume as FAT32, are you?

See these pages in the Win2K and WinXP Resource Kits online:
File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.asp

Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

RC