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when I try and format a had drive over 100g i get the
message Volume Size to big...2000pro, all fixes.. does the
same on my Win98se machine...latest bios in both
computers... external WD usb combo drive..

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system (More info?)

Hi, Professor.

You're NOT trying to format that big volume as FAT32, are you?

See these pages in the Win2K and WinXP Resource Kits online:
File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/default.asp?url=/windows2000/techinfo/reskit/en-us/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.asp

Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

RC
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"the professor" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> when I try and format a had drive over 100g i get the
> message Volume Size to big...2000pro, all fixes.. does the
> same on my Win98se machine...latest bios in both
> computers... external WD usb combo drive..