format fat32

[Charles Rishel]

Pete,

Silly question probably, but did you check the BIOS and ensure that it can 
use the full drive?
I have had to flash the bios on a couple of my AMD boxes to accomodate 40GB 
drives.  BIOS wouldn't recognize over 20GB, and that gave me all kinds of 
problems.  After flashing BIOS, drive geometry is correctly noted and 
passed to the OS.. in my case Win98/Linux dual boot.

Chaz03

At 02:13 PM 1/4/03 -0500, you wrote:
>that was just a typo on my part, i am doing it to hda1
>On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 14:02, deadpoint wrote:
> > mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda is not formatting the partition but the whole
> > drive. you'll have to do something like mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda1.
> >
> > Cyber Source wrote:
> >
> > >Can anyone tell me the correct way to successfully format a fat32
> > >partition in Linux? I have a drive, 80GB which my dos disks won't
> > >recognize correctly and I am making a dual boot with windows/Linux. The
> > >windows part limits to 32GB or wants to format in ntfs, and we cant have
> > >that!
> > >I can make the partition easy enough in Linux and I assign the boot
> > >flag. I then format with the command "mkdosfs -F32 /dev/hda" and it says
> > >it formats OK. I then install windows and it installs but then when it
> > >reboots, it fails. I know I am doing something wrong in the formatting
> > >because this has happened before and my work around then was to hook up
> > >the 80GB as a slave to a windows box and then format it from within
> > >windows, then I installed and everything was ok. Am I doing the mkdosfs
> > >command correctly?
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