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Old June 30th 06, 05:51 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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What configuration would the WinME gurus here recommend for the
implementation of a 250gb external USB drive? I get the impression that ME
will not support a single 250gb partition. If that is so, what would be a
good partition split? I would also like to share the storage of the drive
with a networked XP pc. Ideally, I would like to drive to be utilized for
storing backup images/clones of both the XP and ME pcs.


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Old June 30th 06, 09:11 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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"Ogg" wrote:

What configuration would the WinME gurus here recommend for the
implementation of a 250gb external USB drive? I get the impression that ME
will not support a single 250gb partition. If that is so, what would be a
good partition split? I would also like to share the storage of the drive
with a networked XP pc. Ideally, I would like to drive to be utilized for
storing backup images/clones of both the XP and ME pcs.


In order to use standard disk utilities such as Scandisk and Defrag on
the drive you will need to split it into 2 partitions of approximately
125 gb each.

With FAT32 these partitions will have a 32k cluster size which will be
fine if you are storing large files on the drives as the slack space
(average at least 16K per file) will not be a major consideration.
However if you were using them for large numbers of small files then
this could add up to a significant amount of disk space in total.

Also with FAT32 you will have a a maximum file size of 4 gb and some
applications will only create 2 gb files maximum. This may affect
your storage of disk images, for example.

You may want to consider using NTFS on at least one of the partitions
as that will allow files larger than 4 gb, even though the NTFS
partition would only be accessible from Windows XP.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
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Old July 1st 06, 12:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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Hello, Ron!

Thanks for all the tips/info below. The WinME pc didn't seem to have a way
to initialize the external drive. It was "detected" as a USB memory
device on the System Tray, but I couldn't find a way to configure it in
Device Manager. What am I missing? Meanwhile, I plugged it into a spare XP
Home pc. I was able to partition and configure the drive using the XP pc.
However, there didn't seem to be a way to specify FAT32. The only option
was NTFS. ((( Where did I go wrong in all this?


You wrote on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 20:11:16 GMT:

RM In order to use standard disk utilities such as Scandisk and Defrag on
RM the drive you will need to split it into 2 partitions of approximately
RM 125 gb each.

RM With FAT32 these partitions will have a 32k cluster size which will be
RM fine if you are storing large files on the drives as the slack space
RM (average at least 16K per file) will not be a major consideration.
RM However if you were using them for large numbers of small files then
RM this could add up to a significant amount of disk space in total.

RM Also with FAT32 you will have a a maximum file size of 4 gb and some
RM applications will only create 2 gb files maximum. This may affect
RM your storage of disk images, for example.

RM You may want to consider using NTFS on at least one of the partitions
RM as that will allow files larger than 4 gb, even though the NTFS
RM partition would only be accessible from Windows XP.


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Old July 1st 06, 01:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware
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If you want to partition the drive from Win Me you need first to run FDISK
from a DOS prompt after which you can Format the drive via Explorer. Win
Me, unlike XP, cannot natively partition a drive other than by running
FDISK from a command prompt. You should however have been able to choose
either NTFS or FAT from XP's Disk Manager but when using XP the maximum
size partition that can be formatted as FAT32 is 32GB. XP however has no
problem in accessing a larger FAT32 volume when the volume has been
created by Win Me.
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Mike Maltby



Ogg wrote:

Hello, Ron!

Thanks for all the tips/info below. The WinME pc didn't seem to have
a way to initialize the external drive. It was "detected" as a
USB memory device on the System Tray, but I couldn't find a way to
configure it in Device Manager. What am I missing? Meanwhile, I
plugged it into a spare XP Home pc. I was able to partition and
configure the drive using the XP pc. However, there didn't seem to be
a way to specify FAT32. The only option was NTFS. ((( Where did
I go wrong in all this?


 




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