Server 2003 Not Recognizing 120Gb FAT32 Drive

[JEngles]

Hi I have a Seagate 120Gb drive formatted in FAT32, and I need to mount into a Windows Server 2003 Standard box. The only problem is that it's not being recognized in Device Manager, yet it's being recognized in the BIOS.

I know there are limitations in XP on formating FAT32 over 32Gb, but surely this doesn't affect Server 2003?

Anyway have any ideas.

 

[mrdenny]

Here is the URL which shows the max sizes which drives can be formatted per file system.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...serv/reskit/prork/prdf_fls_pxjh.mspx?mfr=true

It appears that if the drive was formatted with Windows 2000 it must be less than 32 Gigs. As Windows 2003 is based on Windows 2000 I would assume that the same limitations apply.

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[markdmac]

From where was it formatted? Put it back there and then convert the drive to NTFS.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[itsp1965]

It doesn't matter under what OS you set up a FAT32 volume. It is limited to 32GB. As per Mark's advice convert to NTFS.

 

[mrdenny]

At considdering that FAT32 is all but dead why are you trying to use FAT32 is a server anyway?

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