Apparently you can’t format volumes larger than 32GB in FAT32 under WinXP. Anything larger will have to use NTFS. I’ve got a largish drive in a USB-connected enclosure that I’d like to use under Linux, so NTFS was out. As far as I know, the Linux support for it is still experimental.
Well, as the good book says, Google, and ye shall find. The first
suggestions from MS was to boot into Win98/ME and use their FORMAT
command to do this. This is akin to performing brain surgery with a
butter knife dipped in pus.
But I also found Jens-Uwe Mager’s Windows port of the Linux command
mkdosfs that worked like a charm.
So now I’m backing up the MP3’s on this machine. Can life get much better?