how to format lagre drive with fat32 in winxp

explain how large... also tell you have totally RAW HDD or just want to reformat??? Format only extended partition or C too???

its a 40 gb hdd with a single partition of 37.something GB

Use Darik's Boot and Nuke.see the link below for more info
*dban.sourceforge.net/

My god? 40 GB is called to be large drive..! strange..In todays senerio 160+GB hard disk is i suppose to be called as large drive.

buddy no time for PJ's iam really pissed of right now
i cant access the FAT option in WINXP format command.


is there any way usinn which i dont hav ta use any external tool for the same

DukeNukem said:

buddy no time for PJ's iam really pissed of right now
i cant access the FAT option in WINXP format command.


is there any way usinn which i dont hav ta use any external tool for the same

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did u mean FAT or FAT32

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take it easy dukenukem.

while formating making it FAT will convert it into FAT32 dont worry and go for it...

what u mean u dont get the option???
n e ways boot from the cd and then do the format....
or u norton partition magic.

Holy S#!@,

I think you guys are not gettin me OR
Iam not expalining the Probs properly

What iam goin through is

WindowsXP has put some limitation with max size of fat32 drives
though i've made drives of up to 50 GB in windows 98 and format it to

but things goes to hell with xp
the moment the size of drive goes 32 gb you cant format it with FAT32 , only NTFS is available option.

is there any way i can bypass this limi. without using any external tool, as it sounds crazy to use the bootable disk to do this simple job.

is it possible "ONLY USING WINDOWS XP"

Thanks

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i hate pigs.

may be this will help:
*www.mager.org/mkdosfs/
*www.microsoft.com/resources/docume...Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_cycz.asp
*www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/1133065709

use partition magic tool or try out in DOS mode for the same...
I can't test this out sincde i have a 80 gb of hdd with 2 gb of free space..
try out all the possibilities suggested above

thanks a lot Romeo.

your response have ease my pain completely

never mind bro!!!