HARD DRIVE WON'T FORMAT THROUGH FIREWIRE

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I have a Baydock 800 which is connected via a Firewire lead. In one bay is a hard drive which is 40 gigabytes. I wish to format it but when Windows 2000 gets to the end it says the logical drive is too large to format. I have tried formating with Device Manager and Dos but still get the same response.
Can anyone advise. The hard drive is Western Digital.

 

[Freestone]

For FAT32, the maximum volume size Windows 2000 can format is 32GB.

Windows 2000 can format new FAT32 volumes up to 32 GB in size but can mount larger volumes (for example, up to 127.53 GB and 4,177,918 clusters from a volume formatted with the limits of Windows 98). It is possible to mount volumes that exceed these limits, but doing so has not been tested and is not recommended.

See

http://www.microsoft.com/windows200.../techinfo/reskit/en-us/core/fncc_fil_tvjq.asp

Note that this restriction applies to XP also.