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Windows Server 2003 & USB FAT32 HDD

  • 24-03-2005 2:10am
    #1
    Standard Toaster
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    Hey,
    I have just installed Windows Server 2003 (Data Centre) onto my laptop with the intented of learning the ins and outs of it. Anyway, I planned on getting the drivers for the laptop down and using my USB HDD to transfer them onto the laptop.
    Now, the portable HDD is FAT32 250Gb and is not being picked up by Win2003.
    Well, it is....new hardware found and it lists it in Disk Managment but refuses to see the contents or even assign a drive letter. Basicly is doesn't see the filesystem....it's blank. Drive is seen fine in XP SP2.
    Any ideas?
    Am I missing something obvious? :/

    PS
    I don't want to convert the HDD to NTFS as I use it on 98 machines too.

    Cheers for any suggestions.


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  • #2
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    *bump*



    Any ideas, anyone? :/


  • #3
    Infini
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭Infini


    You could use partition magic on a regular desktop to split the harddrive into 2 partitions. You can resize the partition that is FAT32 to a smaller size without reformattin the entire thing and then format the section of free space you created in NTFS format. Then you'd only need to transfer the files you wanted to the NTFS partition and you could use it on server 2003 (although the NTFS partition wouldn't be displayed on Windows 98).


  • #4
    Standard Toaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,272 ✭✭✭✭Standard Toaster


    Cheers for your suggestion Infini.

    Yeah, I was hoping I not to go down that road. I don't want to have any ntfs partitions on this drive you see. I just can't understand why it's not reading the file-system. I have since got around this by using a UDB flash drive....one of them 128mb keyring jobbies. That works fine formatted with FAT & FAT32.....go figure? :/

    Cheers anyway. :)


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