Best way to partion a 1TB into 2 partitions using Fat32

[cal_tony]

I read a thread this morning by J.R. He had a Fat 32 1tb drive that he partitioned with SwissKnife but once partioned, his computer would not recognize the second partition. I am about to do the same thing and I was wondering if there is a preferred way to partition such a large drive and have windows recognize both 500gb partitions? Microsoft recommends using Fdisk from Windows Millinium. Seems like SwissKnife should also do it but I thought I would ask before I proceeded. As the Philips 5990 doesn't recognize NTFS, I want to stay with Fat 32.

Tony

[Dv8ted2]

To format Fat32 partitions larger than 32GB, you would need an external tool
tool here

Otherwise use NTFS.

[festmaster]

There is no need to partition. As cal_tony says, there are utilities to format a drives over 30 gb with FAT32. Do a google search for FAT32 formating and you will find several options. Even Western Digital has a utility on their web site to format their external drives in FAT32. The technical limit for formatting FAT32 is something like 3 or 4 terabytes, so you should be able to format your 1 TB drive in one FAT32 partition.

[redwudz]

The Philips player won't recognize a NTFS disc format.

If you need to format a drive to FAT 32 for something like a Philips 5990, SwissKnife is still the best, IMO. Windows can't create a partition that large in FAT 32, so that's a lost cause.

But I have no idea why Windows doesn't recognize the second partition from the J.R. thread. Try it without the dual partitions. SwissKnife is faster than Windows anyway for creating a FAT 32 disc.

This is still the best guide/info I have found for FAT 32/Philips 5990, IMO: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers?DVDname=philips5990&Submit=Search&Search=Search&or...&hits=50#70038

[cal_tony]

redwudz,


I have a bunch of smaller HDisks in USB enclosures. I even have one around 120GB. I'm going to wait and see how this thread pans out. Then what I guess I'll do is copy the files from my 120gb to my internal 1.5tb disk,and just play with the 120. I'll try Swissknife and if that doesn't work, but it should, I have an old cd with Partition magic on it and I also have a copy of Millennium with Fdisk somewhere. I also have the WD Acronis software. So, I'm sure I can get something to work. I just thought I would ask what others have done before I started. I have 3 Philips 5990s and they work so well with hard disks so I will figure a way to do it. I also have a PS3 that accepts Fat 32 Hard disks, but it just isn't as tolerant as the 5990.

Tony

[cal_tony]

After the problems that J.R. had using Swissknife to partition his hard disk, I thought maybe that wasn't the way to go,but I used swissknife to partition a smaller disk into 2 equal partitions. It was a 2 step process that evidently didn't do correctly.

Anyway, took less than 1 minute for the process and it's done. 2 equal partitions both still fat32.

Tony

[neomaine]

And they are both recognized on the 5990 and the PC?

- Another happy 5990 owner....