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[Cyber Source]

Correction: <insert> I have never
been able to successfully partition a FAT32 in Linux.
I meant I have never been able to successfully FORMAT a FAT32 in Linux.


On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 11:43, Cyber Source wrote:
> A subject that I just got through dealing with...
> It was a MAJOR PAIN! But it is doable. 
> If you already have the XP partitioned/installed, it is most likely in
> NTFS,and that is not good, however,
> If you are partitioning from scratch or wish to copy the current XP to a
> new FAT32 partition, here are the steps I have found.
> W2K and XP limit there formatting capacity of FAT32 partitions to 32GB,
> so, if your drive is larger than that, it will not even give you a
> choice as to how to partition. I had an 80GB drive that a client wanted
> XP on and she also wanted to dual boot and have rw access to the XP
> side.
> I then tried to format the partition with a win98 ebd but that didn't
> see the drive fully either.
> So, I booted the 80GB as a slave to a Linux box and partitioned it with
> fdisk. For reasons probably of my own lack of knowledge, I have never
> been able to successfully partition a FAT32 in Linux. So I then took the
> partitioned drive of 80GB and connected it as a slave to a win98 box and
> formated it through that.
> OK, now I had my 80GB partition formatted in FAT32 and I then
> successfully installed XP on it for the dual boot system.
> If, say you have and existing XP that you would like copied onto such a
> device, you might be able to ghost it right over or just straight copy
> it from a Linux box or what have you.
> TIP, if you copy the file c:\windows\system32\wpa.dbl back onto the new
> XP, you will bypass the need to re-activate if it detects a new
> install/hardware change.
> Hope this helps, it drove me crazy one day, lol
> On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 11:23, David M Rosonowski wrote:
> > Ok, as long as this is being tossed around...
> > 
> >  I'm about to install mandrake 9 on a former (and
> > current) winXP box. I have a large collection of media
> > (50GB+) that I would like to be able to mount the
> > partitions so as to be able to veiw them. I'll be dual
> > booting, purely for games, so I have to leave them in
> > FAT32.
> > 
> > So, how do I go about doing this?
> > 
> > =====
> > "I have not slept a wink"
> > William Shakespeare, Cybelime
> > 
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