Formatting external hard drive with Win2k

[Guest]

When I try to format a 300GB external hard drive with Win2k Pro (SP4),
formatting fails. I get an error message stating that the drive is too big
(this happens whether I access the format command from the File menu or from
Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management in the Control Panel.) How
should I proceed to format this drive?

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

Are you trying to format the drive as FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[Guest]

Sorry, I should have said . . . FAT32. Grazie!

Are you trying to format the drive as FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[Guest]

Sorry. I should have stated that. As FAT32.

Are you trying to format the drive as FAT32 or NTFS?

 

[John Wunderlich]

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Sorry, I should have said . . . FAT32. Grazie!

:

You may be bumping up against the 137 GB Limit. Check out this
article by Seagate:

<http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/tp/137gb.pdf>

HTH,
John

 

[nesredep egrob]

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 17:39:19 -0700, Carlo in Umbria <Carlo in

When I try to format a 300GB external hard drive with Win2k Pro (SP4),
formatting fails. I get an error message stating that the drive is too big
(this happens whether I access the format command from the File menu or from
Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management in the Control Panel.) How
should I proceed to format this drive?

Try this:

Start/run/regedit
select HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
navigate to system/services/atapi/parameters or
system/currentcontrolset/services/atapi/parameters
right click for new
Select Dword name it EnableBigLba (take note of case)
set value to 1
end regedit
reboot

Borge

 

[Kevin McNiel [MSFT]]

Please see Knowledge Base article 184006 Limitations of FAT32 File System
(http://support.microsoft.com/?id=184006) for a discussion of this
limitation.

Kevin McNiel, MCSE/MCSA
Platform Server Setup Group

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