I'm forever forgetting how stupid Windows is. See, I had this unformatted 55GB partition that I wanted to start sorting all my games and data onto. Obviously, I needed to format it first. You'd think that they'd make that easy in XP, wouldn't you?
Well, they do. As long as you want a NTFS filesystem.
But I don't. I want a FAT32 filesystem. It makes my life easier when sharing files between Windows and Linux.
But back to the story. I try to access the partition, and XP helpfully tells me I need to format it first. And then brings up the little GUI for formatting the partition. Which is all well and good, except for the fact that it'll only allow me to create a NTFS filesystem. So I dig around for awhile, find the command-line format program, and am now happily creating a FAT32 filesystem, just like I wanted.
So much for progress. I miss MS-DOS.
EDIT: Huh. Seems like it had a valid reason for not wanting to format to FAT32 after all. I forgot about the 32GB partition-size limit. Yay for my inherent distrust of GUI front-ends.
*makes two partitions*
*formats them happily*
Posted by Ardith at October 6, 2004 12:36 AM | TrackBack