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Date:	Sun, 4 Jul 2004 00:05:46 PDT7
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Maxtor One Touch

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Bob wrote:
> I have purchased a Maxtor One Touch 200gb firewire/USB disk drive.
It appears
> to have come formatted as 200gb FAT32 (large floppy). XP would open it but
> OS/2 would not (which was not unexpected). So on XP I created an extended
> partition and in that created an 80gb NTFS partition, an 80gb unformatted
> partition and a 32gb FAT32 partition. This still would not open using OS/2 so
> I checked it out on XP using DFSEE. DFSEE changed the extended partition type
> from 0F to 05. Still no luck on OS/2, DFSEE see it as drive 3 but can not read
> anything from the drive.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to get this thing working with OS/2?
>
You might find it useful to read the discussion over the past week or
two in the fat32user group on Yahoo. It goes into a lot of detail about
this very issue.

HTH

--
Tom Brown
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E. & SDAA
running eComStation GA + FP 3
eCS system uptime is 0 days 00:42 hours

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