Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Author Topic: External USB drive..........why can't I read more than 2gigs?  (Read 1783 times)

Description:

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline wurzel

  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Join Date: Jan 2007
  • Posts: 273
    • Show all replies
    • http://www.wurzel.co.uk
I'm not an expert, but I offer an opinion.

AFAIK, large USB drives are formatted using NTFS (sp?).

Even PC's can only read large USB drives with NTFS, not Fat95.

To read (not write, unfortunately) you can use GiggleDisk from Aminet.

Having said that, I did repartition my 80gb drive into 30gb with Fat95 and 50gb with NTFS, and both the miggy and pc can read all the 30gb. But, it was formatted using Partition Magic so maybe that gives a clue?

--
A1200 Power Tower, Blizzard 060 with SCSI, 196mb Ram, Mediator, Voodoo 5500, Spider USB, Hauppage TV, Soundblaster & Fast Ethernet cards, 2gb boot/program drive, 40gb data drive, 40x12x48 CDRW