Phillips 5990 with large External Drive formated with Swiss Knife

[greasyspoon]

I have the Phillips 5990 and an external 160 gig drive. Due to the limitations of FAT32 I have the drive partitioned in to a 40 gig drive and 120 gig drive. This works fine, but a friend of mine told me about this software called swiss knife
http://www.compuapps.com/download/Swissknife/swissknife.htm
It can create a FAT32 partion larger than 40 gigs.

My friend did this but uses his drive on an Xbox 360. It works fine for him. I was wondering if it would be compatable to with the DVD player. My friend lives out of town so I can't just use his drive. I have mine full and don't mind reformating but I was just looking for a quick answer before moved 160 gigs of data (takes a while).

has anyone had any experence with this?

Thanks

[Supreme2k]

Do a search for "philips swissknife"

This has been covered ad nauseum in the forums (and heavily championed by redwudz).

[redwudz]

Swissknife works fine with a 500GB drive and a single partition, probably larger drives also. And they work fine with the Philips. Just stick to the 648 maximum files per partition.

And welcome to our forums.

[Evil Monkey]

Works good with my 500GB Iomega drive. And I used swiss knife, it's the best free software out there for formatting.

[Evil Monkey]

The only thing I don't like is the hard drive won't spin down if I shut the dvd player off, so I have to flip the switch on the back. On my 360 it powers down when I shut the 360 off.

[greasyspoon]

I set it all up and tested last night.
Works like a champ, but it took forever to backup 160 gigs to I could partion the drive.

Thanks for the replys.

Jon