Not exactly.

support.microsoft.com/kb/q154997/ says:


but next line says:


That's what I mean.
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oh, lol, yeah, I thought I remembered that too. So you are trying to create a fat32 partition larger than 32 gigabytes? I thought XP had solved that issue, I guess not.

There's a couple of things you can do, I just make more than one partition for my data, one partition for each data type, and the ones I want to share between linux and windows I make fat32.

There's also another option, you can get a linux thing called Captive that supports ntfs using the native ntfs drivers, it basically searches your hard disk for either xp or windows 2000 ntfs drivers, then uses those, so linux can read and write natively.

Mepis uses a similar method to read and write from ntfs partitions. The native linux ntfs file system support is still buggy though, never recommended to read and write to ntfs, just read.

Here's a useful linux ntfs read me and how to from sourceforge linux-ntfs.

There's some other options too, you can read ext2 and ext3 by getting some windows add ons, not write though.
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I finally get the partition formated in FAT32 under SuSE :) Just have to remember how to configure the new partition in FSTAB and it seems I'm ready :) Thanks for the advices and the links! One more step and the mission is completed.
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glad it worked for you, and welcome to the forums by the way.

What does 'dum Spiro, Spero!' mean? Oh, wait, I found it: WHILE I BREATHE I HOPE

That's a good one.
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This is one of my favourite quotations, I adore reading famous personalities' qoutations. I post here 'cause here I found information for Error 117... I was searching for an explaination how to repair my PM and I found this topic. Otherwise, I have more than 2,000 posts in different forums.
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why this error happen ? it s happen due to changing in letter in the windows operation system not from DOS . and that effect on partition table how read from DOS NOT FROM WINDOW.(AND ALL THAT HAPPEN ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE MORE THATN 1 PARTITION)

SOLUTION :
1- IF YOU CAN FIX THE PARTITON TABLE AND CHANGE LETTER FROM WINDOWS BY USING ACRIONS PROGRAM DO IT BUT YOU WILL GONNA LOSE ALL DATA ON PARTITION (NOT RECOMANDED) BE CAREFULL USING PARTITION TABLE .

2- MY WAY TO DO IT USING NORTON GHOST 2003 AND 2 OPERATION SYSTEM ON C AND D . (MOVE ALL YOUR DOCUMENT TO C) .

IF YOU DONT HAVE 2 OPERTATION SYSTEM AND U DONTWANT TO LOSE 2ED OS USE NORTON GHOST TO BACKUP IT (ON C) THAT TAKE 4 MINUTIES MAX.

3-PUT ANY OPERATION SYSTEM CD (WINDOWS XP , VISTA , MEL)
OR (IF U CAN USE F DISK OR DOS SO USE IT ) LET WINDOWS DOWNLAODINGS FILES AND WHEN YOU ARRIVE TO INSTALL IN WICH PARTIION JUST DELET ALL PARTITION AND RECREAT THEM AGAIN USING THE RIGHT LETTERS D E F G..... AS U WANT AFTER THAT QUICK FORMAT . GO OUT DONT INSTALL ANY THINGS (WINDOWS) THATS TAKE 10 MINUTES MAX .

4-NOW YOUR HARD DRIVE LETTERS PARTITION ARE THE SAME IN DOS AND WINDOWS RESTOR YOUR 2ED OS IN D 4 MINUTES MAX AND MOVE YOUR DOCUMENT WHEREEVER YOU WANT NOW PARTITION MAGIC 8 WORK AND THAT TAKE 18 MINUTES

THATS THE MOST SAVE WAY TO FIX IT OTHER WISE DONT TRY ITS WILL NOT BE USFULL
NOTES. IF THE 2 ED OS CANNT BOOT JUST USE VISTA BOOTLAODER TO FIX IT OR COPY THE BOOT.INI FILES TO C AND AFTER THAT PUT IT ON D DONT FORGET TO CHANGE THE NUMBER ON IT
1=C IF OS INSTALL IN C
2=D IF OS INSALL ON D
3 E ................... AND SO
:)
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Try EaseUs Partition Manager, this is not a spam.... Link is here: www.easeus.com/partition-manager/. I used it before. Just to do partition for my new PC. And I surprisingly found out that it can merge your partitions together even they are different types. For example, it is possible to merge a partition from a FAT disk with a partition from NTFS file systems. And the instructions are clear so you don't have to worry if it has any complicated operations. Good luck!
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