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Can't format partition during Windows install
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<blockquote data-quote="JonnyBrokenBone" data-source="post: 648680" data-attributes="member: 55092"><p>I thought I'd throw this out there as well.</p><p></p><p>Something that I had noticed after a day's worth of trying to XP installed is that the 32gb that Boot Camp was setting aside was too big to be formatted in fat32 when being read by the XP installer. I had tried manually formatting into fat 32 using the recovery console, and it worked, but the install of windows failed pretty miserably.</p><p></p><p>I had gone back into boot camp and allocated a 30GB partition, then started the windows install again, and the option to format in Fat32 was there. I formatted, and everything ran smoothly after that. </p><p></p><p>So another option is to simply try knocking the partition size down a gig or two so that setup recognizes it as a fat32 compatible drive.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonnyBrokenBone, post: 648680, member: 55092"] I thought I'd throw this out there as well. Something that I had noticed after a day's worth of trying to XP installed is that the 32gb that Boot Camp was setting aside was too big to be formatted in fat32 when being read by the XP installer. I had tried manually formatting into fat 32 using the recovery console, and it worked, but the install of windows failed pretty miserably. I had gone back into boot camp and allocated a 30GB partition, then started the windows install again, and the option to format in Fat32 was there. I formatted, and everything ran smoothly after that. So another option is to simply try knocking the partition size down a gig or two so that setup recognizes it as a fat32 compatible drive. [/QUOTE]
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