Trying to get a Sata HDD to work....

[yurimxpxman]

Originally Posted by Jafo

I found a lot of Programmers can do anything they want once a computer is up and running, but let something die inside it and they're lost as to how to fix it.

Disclaimer:
The above is just my experience and may not apply to all programmers.

heh. That's me right there. It took me 3 months to troubleshoot my dead birdy rig.

[One4yu2c]

Originally Posted by yurimxpxman

Dated and inaccurate. The 128GB partition size limit was a bug in the original release of XP, and has since been patched.

Wow, talk about a gross generalization. Discounting an entire article/recommendation based on a single point does a mis-service to anyone reading facing the same decision. Plain and simple, there are very few people that should ever consider FAT32 over NTFS on Windows XP for various reasons (some more of which can be read and recommended straight from the horse's mouth, so to speak).

Originally Posted by Running Rampant

Thanks guys, yep its for Windows XP[...]I'm fairly certain Linux won't factor into it

I'm formatting it now! (NTFS by the way)

That's what I figured. Glad you got it sorted out, assuming the format was successful!