How can I get FAT32 and not NTFS

[Guest]

Hi.
I am trying to prepare a disk for Xpe for EWF with a 1.2G active Fat32 as C:
and a 35Gb Fat32 extended as D: and leaving 1.2G as the EWF overlay.

Using my development system with a 40Gb drive as C: and D:. I add the target
drive which is a Fujitsu MHT2040AT (40GB) and use XPpro Disk Management
utility I can make the E: 1.2G with FAT32 but when I come to make the G:
35GB extended and logical drive I only get NTFS as a format option.
Does anyone have any idea how I can get a FAT32 format for this drive.
The E: and G: drives will become C: and D: in the final system. Hope that
makes sense.
Thanks.
Regards
Graham.

 

[Nick Nehrhood /MSFT/]

Hi Graham -
There is a limitation imposed by 2k && XP which limits FAT32 partitions
to 32GB. If you want to get around this you can try loading a Windows 98 SE
(or Gold) boot floppy and then use FDISK to create your 35GB partition.

Wikipedia has a very detailed article on FAT if you'd like to check it out.
It's totally optional.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT32

Best of luck.

 

[Guest]

Hi Nick.
Thanks for that. All is now clear. I will look at your reference. Many thanks
Regards
Graham.