formatting >40GB FAT drives

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Glenn - Audio&Media Europe nv

Is there a way to format haddisk greater than 40GB, with the FAT32 file
system, under windows 2K ? I have to do this quite often, and it's a waste
of time to hook up a drive, boot into DOS, and run "format c:" every time...
Or is there a OS that is capable of formatting multiple harddisks >40GB in
FAT32?

Tnx in advance!
 
get a Win98 bootdisk and format most any size you want to Fat32. Win2000
will only format up to 32 gig partitions to Fat32.
 
I see. However, isn't the bottleneck the actual formatting itself, not
how you get to the formatting tool. I'm not sure I see how formatting
from within the gui would be that much faster than booting to a 98 boot
disk.

Well, regardless, I am not aware of any other formatting tool other than
Partition Magic, perhaps, but that's probably even more tedious than the
good ole 98 boot disk.
 
You could try BootItNG. When you start the pc you have direct acces to
the Operating System(s) or direct access to hard drive(s) and partition
for maintenance. No diskettes or anything like that. I've never seen
anything format a partition faster than BootItNG.

John
Well, in general circumstances, NTFS is better than FAT32. But, I work with
a company that rents computersystems with MP3-players on them to bars,
malls, ... ; and win98 still requires the least resources from a PC to run,
so that is our choice.

We don't even boot in the explorer - shell, we use the player as our own
shell. Resulting from this, we need to format about 80 Harddisk per month in
FAT32, and, as I said, it's kind of a slow-down to use the WIN98SE disk
every time, boot into dos for every harddisk, run fdisk, run format, and
wait wait wait.
Does anyone know a non-MS tool to do this? (maybe Norton?)

Already thanks for the many replies!
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