[vox-tech] Reformatting a FAT32 partition

Richard S. Crawford vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 16 Jan 2003 13:35:53 -0800


While rebuilding my system, I created a partition that I meant to share 
between Windows and Linux for the occasional document that *has* to be 
in MS Word, or the occasional graphic that I just can't figure out how 
to fix in GIMP.  Originally, I accidentally formatted the partition as 
FAT32, and got a message from my kernel as I was booting up that said, 
"Warning -- FAT32 support is still alpha."  Which I knew, of course.

So now, I'm back in Windows, trying to reformat that partition as FAT 
instead of FAT32.  Windows says it can't complete the format for some 
reason.

Anyone have any ideas why, or how to fix this?
-- 
Sliante,
Richard S. Crawford

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