Need help in a hurry Fat32/16

[breakthesilenc21]

I Just bought a simpleTech 60 gb external hd(5400 rpm) and i need to be able to use it with both a mac and a pc and it says to do that i need to reformat the hd to fat32/16 filesystem but the maual does not say how.Also i have heard that a fat32 can only hold 4gb of data and is that true because whats the point of reformating a 60gb hd if it can only hold 4 gb? so i need to know how to reformat it and if it would benefit or hurt me?

 

[StrangleHold]

Dont know about FAT16 but I have a 80GB formated in FAT32 on a older computer with 98se. If you want to format it in FAT32 heres a link. Its a boot floppy.
http://www.bootdisk.com/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q255867/

 

[jancz3rt]

Heya

Well FAT32 partitions should not exceed 40GB. Make two partitions of 30GB and format them FAT32 style You can do the formatting from WXP

JAN

 

[Burgerbob]

4gb limit is for file size, not total partition- so unless you copy an entire DVD at once, you are good. If you do need files larger than that, try to seperate them if possible. I have an external 40gb, with 12 gigs taken up- depending on what you are doing, you will never have that problem.