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Old 01-05-2006, 02:56 AM
Scott
 
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Default Partitioning External Drive

I ave an extrnal Maxtor 250GB hard drive. I use it to back up
drive images with Acronis True Image 8.0 from both my Win98 and
Win XP machines. I have a 160GB NTFS partition and two Win98
FAT32 partitions, plus 22GB of unallocated space. I would have
made the Win98 partitions bigger, but there seems to be a 32GB
limit for FAT32 partitions. I'm using Win XP's Disk Management
tool. So I now have a total of three partitions. When I try
to partition the unallocated space by right-clicking on the
graphical display of the unallocated space, the New Partition
option is greyed out. Is there some reason why I can only put
three partitions on a drive? How can I partition the remaining
22GB?

Thanks!
Scott
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