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Default Large IDE drives not compatable with old systems

Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:03:10 -0700, D Yuniskis
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Have you tried putting the drive into a PC and building/formatting
your four 10G partitions *there*? IIRC, FAT32 will support up to
~30G ...


FAT32 can support drives much larger than that. For example, I'm
running a 120GB drive on a Win98SE box with a FAT32 file system. You
may be thinking of Windows XP's artificial 32GB limit.


Sorry, I was actually thinking of the 32*M* limit imposed earlier...