Vosonic X-Drive II 2060 - FAT32 Formatting issues

[sierra56]

GREETINGS
I am going crazy :evil: - okay getting pretty frustrated - trying to get my laptop hard drive formatted. I have a bit of PC savy but I haven't had much luck! I hooked the unformatted 40 GB laptop hard drive to my pc using a adapter and grew frustrated trying it that way (was going to boot to a win98 disk).....

I have since heard that Vosonic's disk that comes with the storage unit has something on it that allows you to format to FAT32 but I have had no luck thus far. I have spent HOURS on this stupid thing and have gotten nowhere. If anyone can help me it would be much appreciated. :lol: If you are willing to send me your phone number so I could call you (if that would be easier than a bunch of typing) that would be cool too.

Oh yeah one more question. I read that the memory sticks must be formatted to fat32 as well. Is that true????

Tanks! Tori

[etaf]

can you provide some details - like whats the OS on the laptop, maybe some details on the hardware.

BTW - you might want to remove the email - software searches forum for real email addresses and then spams you. your email should be available via your profile if you have made it available

[sierra56]

Thanks for the note on the spam thing. I removed the email with my address.

Actually the hard drive for the laptop is "free" - it's one I bought specifically for the Vosonic. Tried to hook it up to my desktop with an adapter.

Anyway I think I am SOL - I found this on another forum (below after dotted line) and read (after downloading) that I cannot format to fat32 over 32 gb and the HD I purchased for the vosonic is 40GB. Sigh.....and I am leaving for Cancun Friday, hoped to store my pix here. Any other suggestions for a storage device that isn't such a pain in the butt?????
THANKS GANG!
Tori

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The drive needs to be formatted using FAT32. Microsoft removed this capability from Windows XP. Vosonic has an app that lets you format a drive as FAT32 in XP.

Go here:
http://www.vosonic.com/index.php?php_mode=downloads (http://www.vosonic.com/index.php?php_mode=downloads)

You'll need to use Internet Explorer: Mozilla doesn't display the whole page.

Scroll down to the "X's Drive II VP2060" section and click the download link for the "Application Program v2.01".

I see they have a new version of this app: hopefully, they've made it more English-friendly.

[etaf]

i have used fat32 to format a laptop drive from winXP - from control panel - admin tools, computer management.
anyway glad its solved.

re photos - i would copy them to CD or DVD's - hardrives fail.....
also i usually make two copies

[DavidEB]

typical PC.

bought same tank & a 60GB drive, my iMac had no problems.


The hours of grief I've saved by ditching my old PC and going mac have extended my life.

[kiwimichael]

Hi, When I bought my X-Drive and a 40Gb disk I also had the same problem - not able to format greater than 32Gb. After lots of trail and error I ended up solving the problem as follows: create a startup floppy (Win98 or Win2000), check that the BIOS will boot from floppy and then swapped the current HD in my laptop with the HD destined for the X-Drive. Boot from floppy and use FDISK to format the HD. Swap the HD's and you're finished!
I encountered another problem later: I couple the X-Drive to my PC (WinXP) and copy the required files and then delete them from the X-Drive. When on vacation I was unable to add files to the X-Drive as the disk was full. Seems as if deleting does not free up the space. Was in France at the time and actually found a PC shop who helped. They used an adapter to connect the X-Drive directly to a PC,transferred my files to another HD and then formatted my HD. After replacing my files we put the HD back and all works well. I'm now approaching the 40 Gb limit again, so am interested to see what will happen.

Cheers

[felix21685]

i had to get rid of 2 partitions on the HD for my image tank so i used a program called swiss knife V3
if you need more help pm me

[Salleke]

Hi, When I bought my X-Drive and a 40Gb disk I also had the same problem - not able to format greater than 32Gb. After lots of trail and error I ended up solving the problem as follows: create a startup floppy (Win98 or Win2000), check that the BIOS will boot from floppy and then swapped the current HD in my laptop with the HD destined for the X-Drive. Boot from floppy and use FDISK to format the HD. Swap the HD's and you're finished!
I encountered another problem later: I couple the X-Drive to my PC (WinXP) and copy the required files and then delete them from the X-Drive. When on vacation I was unable to add files to the X-Drive as the disk was full. Seems as if deleting does not free up the space. Was in France at the time and actually found a PC shop who helped. They used an adapter to connect the X-Drive directly to a PC,transferred my files to another HD and then formatted my HD. After replacing my files we put the HD back and all works well. I'm now approaching the 40 Gb limit again, so am interested to see what will happen.

Cheers

About 6 weeks ago i bought a Vosonic VP 2160 with a 40 GB HDD. Inside the box there is a little CD (8 centimeters diameter) that contains a utility for formatting your HDD for the whole 40 GB. So i suggest you can use this utility or you can dowload it from the Vosonic website. You find the explanation also in the little manual that came with the drive. It's very easy to format the HDD with 40 GB with the manual and the utility. I hope this helps.

[kiwimichael]

About 6 weeks ago i bought a Vosonic VP 2160 with a 40 GB HDD. Inside the box there is a little CD (8 centimeters diameter) that contains a utility for formatting your HDD for the whole 40 GB. So i suggest you can use this utility or you can dowload it from the Vosonic website. You find the explanation also in the little manual that came with the drive. It's very easy to format the HDD with 40 GB with the manual and the utility. I hope this helps.

Hi

Thanks for the tip.
When I got my X-drive I never tried the CD as I didn't need any drivers for WinXP. Reading the manual, their website and serching the WWW all led me to believe that it was not possible to format a 40Gb disk under WinXP. There was never any indication that there was a tool on the CD which would solve my problem :cry:

After reading the posts here I downloaded the tool and tried to run it - alas it won't run on WinXP SP2!!!!!

Cheers
Michael

[felix21685]

have you tried swiss knife? it can format any kind of HD even usb...

[Salleke]

Hi

Thanks for the tip.
When I got my X-drive I never tried the CD as I didn't need any drivers for WinXP. Reading the manual, their website and serching the WWW all led me to believe that it was not possible to format a 40Gb disk under WinXP. There was never any indication that there was a tool on the CD which would solve my problem :cry:

After reading the posts here I downloaded the tool and tried to run it - alas it won't run on WinXP SP2!!!!!

Cheers
Michael

Like you I have Win XP SP2 on my computer and it works perfect.
Whit Windows Explorer you see, on the Vosonic CD, a FDisk AP directory.
In there you see a file: FDiskAP-2.00.exe, you can run it from the CD or
you can copy it to your HDD and run it from your HDD.
This file is only 40 KB so if you don't have it or cannot find it I can mail it to you.
Like I told you it works pefectly whit XP SP2 because it's written for it.
I hope this help you out whit your problem.

[kiwimichael]

have you tried swiss knife? it can format any kind of HD even usb...

Thanks for the Tip - just tried it and looks as if it will do what I need!!

Nicer interface than the Vosonic app.

Cheers
Michael

[kiwimichael]

Like you I have Win XP SP2 on my computer and it works perfect.
Whit Windows Explorer you see, on the Vosonic CD, a FDisk AP directory.
In there you see a file: FDiskAP-2.00.exe, you can run it from the CD or
you can copy it to your HDD and run it from your HDD.
This file is only 40 KB so if you don't have it or cannot find it I can mail it to you.
Like I told you it works pefectly whit XP SP2 because it's written for it.
I hope this help you out whit your problem.

Hi Salleke,

Thanks for the info an d offer to forward the file.
I had downloaded the latest version - v2.01 = this gives problems.
Just installed Swiss Knife - it looks good. I jusy need to archive my daya before I starrt formatting.

Cheers
Michael