Guest Nak Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format as primary partition, for a test. Any help. I want FAT 32. -- Nak
Guest John John Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? The built in Windows XP disk management tool will not allow you to format FAT32 if the volume is larger than 32GB. XP can mount and use FAT32 volumes much larger than 32GB but you just cannot format them with XP. Either keep the volumes smaller than 32 GB or use a third party disk tool to format larger volumes. John Nak wrote: > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > as primary partition, for a test. > > Any help. I want FAT 32. >
Guest Shenan Stanley Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Nak wrote: > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try > format as primary partition, for a test. > > Any help. I want FAT 32. See response to identical post in the same newsgroup as this. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? "Nak" <Nak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D2EE15D-DCDD-48C7-8FEE-FAA2B4432033@microsoft.com... > > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > as primary partition, for a test. Yes, it will., but not if the partition is over 23 gig. > > Any help. I want FAT 32. Why? You'll need to boot with another OS or shift the drive to another non-XP system and format that way. HTH -pk > -- > Nak
Guest Nak Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Thanks John, Shenan and Patrick. Don't have another puter w/ either different OS or SATA connectors. Keep that in mind though. Have scoured the Net in interim and picked up a lot on the issues. Panic over. After reading all that, decided NTFS might be best way to go for now anyway. Do appreciate all the inputs from you gents. Learn something new everyday. Thank you. -- Nak "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > "Nak" <Nak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8D2EE15D-DCDD-48C7-8FEE-FAA2B4432033@microsoft.com... > > > > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > > as primary partition, for a test. > > Yes, it will., but not if the partition is over 23 gig. > > > > > Any help. I want FAT 32. > > Why? > > You'll need to boot with another OS or shift the drive to another non-XP > system and format that way. > > HTH > -pk > > > -- > > Nak > > >
Guest melvin cotterill Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Hello; My experience is limited in this area but I will try to help you. I think you are on the right track except you should really post this information in the windowsxp hardware newsgroup. I reason the following: 1. Your Seagate drives are SATA hard drives. This stands for Serial ATA interface. They have nothing to do with the so called SSCI hard drives. So place aside talk regarding SCSI hard drives. Seagate manufacturers both hard drive basic types which is the likely source of confusion. The rated capacity of your drives is 80 Gb and 160 Gb and both are high speed 7200 RPM devices. This is not top speed but it is running very fast. I am guessing you bought these drives on eBay. 2. You must connect these drives to your motherboard with separate cables. That is, one cable for each drive. 3. I believe I am correct in saying you can not use the FAT file system format. I am not sure why you want to stick to this format. You must first convert your current drive to NTFS file system. I cant see why it will do any harm to convert. To do this in Windows XP: Start>Run , type in cmd and press enter to get the command prompt C:\ etc.. Now type in this command and press enter; convert A /fs:ntfs. This will convert drive A to the NTFS file system. Note: a small prayer before you press enter is considered good practice. The command will not work if all is not in order. No harm done in trying. 4. Connect one hard drive to the red connector on the motherboard and the other to the second red connector. I believe the red connectors on your motherboard are for these type of drives. At any rate try this. It wont harm anything if you do. 5. Make sure you have downloaded the latest Seagate DiscWizard software via the internet. It has been upgraded recently and is an excellent tool for you to proceed and now attempt to add a your hard drive to your system.The Seagate software is essentially foolproof. It is almost impossible to make gross mistakes. If it wont work for you then more prayers are in order coupled with a new post to the hardware xp newsgroup. I hope I have helped somewhat. "Nak" <Nak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8D2EE15D-DCDD-48C7-8FEE-FAA2B4432033@microsoft.com... > > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > as primary partition, for a test. > > Any help. I want FAT 32. > > -- > Nak
Guest Nak Posted October 1, 2007 Posted October 1, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Well thanks for that, melvin. Every bit helps. Yours did as well. All your points are well taken. fact is, I've just finished formating 5 partitions on it in NTFS, which I finally decided was best all round. A lot of what you say I've already gone thru and replied to in Win XP General, where I also posted and got some good feedback. Looks like Win XP is a bit screwed up (according to other forum) and reports SATA drives as SCSI ones. Learn somtin new everyday. Thanks for the cmnd and the Seagate wizard suggestion. May come in handy some time. Did find some aps which can format large drives w/ FAT32, by the way but saw some potential disadvantages there, so caved in to NTFS for now. No time to mess and consider at moment. Thanks again, -- Nak "melvin cotterill" wrote: > Hello; > My experience is limited in this area but I will try to help you. I think > you are on the right track except you should really post this information in > the windowsxp hardware newsgroup. I reason the following: > > 1. Your Seagate drives are SATA hard drives. This stands for Serial ATA > interface. They have nothing to do with the so called SSCI hard drives. So > place aside talk regarding SCSI hard drives. Seagate manufacturers both hard > drive basic types which is the likely source of confusion. The rated > capacity of your drives is 80 Gb and 160 Gb and both are high speed 7200 RPM > devices. This is not top speed but it is running very fast. I am guessing > you bought these drives on eBay. > 2. You must connect these drives to your motherboard with separate cables. > That is, one cable for each drive. > 3. I believe I am correct in saying you can not use the FAT file system > format. I am not sure why you want to stick to this format. You must first > convert your current drive to NTFS file system. I cant see why it will do > any harm to convert. To do this in Windows XP: Start>Run , type in cmd and > press enter to get the command prompt C:\ etc.. Now type in this command and > press enter; convert A /fs:ntfs. This will convert drive A to the NTFS file > system. Note: a small prayer before you press enter is considered good > practice. The command will not work if all is not in order. No harm done in > trying. > 4. Connect one hard drive to the red connector on the motherboard and the > other to the second red connector. I believe the red connectors on your > motherboard are for these type of drives. At any rate try this. It wont harm > anything if you do. > 5. Make sure you have downloaded the latest Seagate DiscWizard software via > the internet. It has been upgraded recently and is an excellent tool for you > to proceed and now attempt to add a your hard drive to your system.The > Seagate software is essentially foolproof. It is almost impossible to make > gross mistakes. If it wont work for you then more prayers are in order > coupled with a new post to the hardware xp newsgroup. > I hope I have helped somewhat. > > "Nak" <Nak@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8D2EE15D-DCDD-48C7-8FEE-FAA2B4432033@microsoft.com... > > > > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > > as primary partition, for a test. > > > > Any help. I want FAT 32. > > > > -- > > Nak > > >
Guest John McGaw Posted October 2, 2007 Posted October 2, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Nak wrote: > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > as primary partition, for a test. > > Any help. I want FAT 32. > http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
Guest Nak Posted October 3, 2007 Posted October 3, 2007 Re: How to configure a 2nd SCSI SATA drive? Appreciate the link, John. Will go there now. Thank you, -- Nak "John McGaw" wrote: > Nak wrote: > > Just as suspected, Win XP won't give me the FAT32 option when try format > > as primary partition, for a test. > > > > Any help. I want FAT 32. > > > > http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm >
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