Ok, my car can run mp3's off from an HDD as long as it is FAT32. So, I bought a 120GB laptop HDD to replace the 4GB flash drive I am using. Figuring on making 40GB's FAT32 and and the remainder of the drive NTFS for backing up data.
Well, I bought a Scorpio Western Digital 120GB SATA laptop HDD and a MASSCOOL external enclosure. For some reason, I can only format to NTFS! But if I try to format my flash drives, it will work fine.
I have looked at a few boot CD's to get this going but just can't seem too. Anyone know of any other way to get this to work?
Making a FAT32 partition on a WD Laptop External HDD?
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http://www.allensmith.net/Storage/HDDlimit/FAT32.htm
Windows XP/2000 FAT32 Formatting Limit
\"While the FAT32 file system can support drives up to a standard theoretical size of 2 terabytes, (it 'can' be jury-rigged under Windows Millennium Edition to support partitions of up to 8 TB), Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional cannot FORMAT a volume larger than 32 GB in size using their native FAT32 file system.
Windows XP/2000 FAT32 Formatting Limit
\"While the FAT32 file system can support drives up to a standard theoretical size of 2 terabytes, (it 'can' be jury-rigged under Windows Millennium Edition to support partitions of up to 8 TB), Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional cannot FORMAT a volume larger than 32 GB in size using their native FAT32 file system.
Did some looking on this and found this site has the answer.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index. ... format.htm
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index. ... format.htm