Maxtor 200gig HD install

[Audio Jack]

I've installed a Maxtor 200Gb disk in a casing and connected it to the puter
with USB cable.
On a separate USB 2.0 card.
Partitioned it with Acronis PartitionExpert.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABL
DRIVE M: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Verifying 194474M
The volume is too big for FAT32.

Devided it into 2 partitions and formatted one with the below result.

C:\>format L:
The type of the file system is FAT32.

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE L: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
Verifying 102437M
The volume is too big for FAT32.

Question:
How or what do I use to format the USB dive?
Can I or can't I use one big partition with FAT32?

 

[Mark Denton[MSFT]]

Hope this helps:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=184006

Says: You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32
file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and
support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject
to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This
behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB,
use the NTFS file system instead.


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[R. C. White]

Hi, Jack.

As Mark Denton said, Win2K can USE the largest FAT32 volume you can find,
but you'll first have to use something other than Win2K/XP to do the FAT32
formatting for that volume.

Microsoft decided to limit Win2K/XP's ability to FORMAT volumes as FAT32 to
a maximum of 32 GB. I suppose this is another way to encourage us all to
more quickly move to NTFS, leaving FAT behind. Win98 can format a volume at
least as large as ~127 GB as FAT32; after that, Win2K/XP can happily use the
whole volume. Note that this applies to a "volume" (either a primary
partition or a logical drive in an extended partition); a single hard disk
drive can hold multiple volumes, of course. So, you can either partition
your 200 GB HD into at least 6 <32 GB volumes and format them as FAT32 with
Win2K, or you can Partition it into one or more <128 GB volumes and use a
Win9x/ME boot floppy and use Format.exe to format those volumes as FAT32.
(I don't know whether MS-DOS or Win9x/ME can format the whole 200 GB as a
single FAT32 volume.)

RC