Re: USB Drive Partition Size
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:54:49 -0500, Sid Elbow <here@there.com> wrote:
>nesredep egrob wrote:
>> On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:02:50 -0500, Sid Elbow <here@there.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a partition-size limit for USB drives?
>>>
>>> I have a USB drive with a 250G HD. I was able to create a single
>>> partition using the whole drive space but could not format it (NTFS).
>>> When I created two, roughly equal, partitions I was able to format both.
>>
>> I have not tried that as I am a partition Jockey - however I am sure that I
>> would not format it using USB rather than that I should put it into my computer
>> and format it there. I use 320GB as USB Drives
>
>In fact, that's how I had it set up originally ... partitioned/formatted
>in a computer then transferred to the USB housing. But I got so many
>errors that I decided to repartition/reformat in the USB setup. I wanted
>a single partition because this is destined for doing system backups and
>a single partition is more convenient.
>
>Windows allowed me to create a single partition and appeared to format
>it - it took what I judged to be the a normal amount of time while
>displaying the "Formatting" message - afterwards it displayed an error
>window stating that it was unable to complete the format.
>
>When I formatted it as two partitions, I could format both OK. However,
>I'm left with another peculiarity: even when I turn off the computer and
>remove the drive, I'm left with two "ghost" drives (the two USB
>partitions) on the next reboot. I'm still investigating but it seems
>that something has confused the USB drive with a Netgear SAN (Storage
>Area Network) device.
>
>Never had problems with USB drives before ... the only difference in
>this case is that the drive/usb-case is a SATA setup whereas I'd only
>used IDE before.
Sorry I have only used PATA drives for USB so I cannot give an opinion on the
SATA. So far I have just used them in the Raid format.
Borge in sunny Perth, Australia