I used the HP bootable USB drive utility to format my 4 gig USB drive to FAT format, but when i restart my computer and try to boot from it, it won't work!
it just gives me an error message, i forgot what, but it says it won't boot.
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what am i doing wrong?
p.s. i tried formatting the disk many times, in NAT, FAT, FAT32, didn't work. I tried using the HP bootable usb drive utility to format at FAT while checked the "dos floppy," using the files in the "BootFiles" folder in leerage's profile. that didn't work either.
from microsoft:
Microsoft MS-DOS versions 4.0 and later allow FDISK to partition hard disks up to 4 gigabytes (GB) in size. However, the MS-DOS file allocation table (FAT) file system can support only 2 GB per partition. Because of this fact, a hard disk between 2 and 4 GB in size must be broken down into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB.
The 2-GB partition limit is imposed by the maximum number of clusters and the largest cluster size supported by the FAT file system. The FAT file system is limited to 65,525 clusters. The size of a cluster must be a power of 2 and less than 65,536 bytes--this results in a maximum cluster size of 32,768 bytes (32K). Multiplying the maximum number of clusters (65,525) by the maximum cluster size (32,768) equals 2 GB
I have a 500GB external HD that i use with my 360 and managed to format it using a program called SwissKnife. Was a bit of a fiddle on but it worked in the end. Google it and you should find it.
The fat32 restriction used to apply. With newer software it is possible to format larger drives with the fat32 file system so that should't be an issue :)
Originally posted by dawnid: 4 Gb is too big for FAT
from microsoft:
Microsoft MS-DOS versions 4.0 and later allow FDISK to partition hard disks up to 4 gigabytes (GB) in size. However, the MS-DOS file allocation table (FAT) file system can support only 2 GB per partition. Because of this fact, a hard disk between 2 and 4 GB in size must be broken down into multiple partitions, each of which does not exceed 2 GB.
The 2-GB partition limit is imposed by the maximum number of clusters and the largest cluster size supported by the FAT file system. The FAT file system is limited to 65,525 clusters. The size of a cluster must be a power of 2 and less than 65,536 bytes--this results in a maximum cluster size of 32,768 bytes (32K). Multiplying the maximum number of clusters (65,525) by the maximum cluster size (32,768) equals 2 GB
man
yea i finally got a 2 gig usb drive and it worked fine
