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Format FAT32 with Linux mkdosfs for Windows

Format FAT32 with Linux mkdosfs for Windows NT/ Windows 2K/ Windows XP.

Windows NT based systems are limited to 32GB as the maximum size of the FAT32 file systems they can create. But these systems can use larger FAT32 file systems fine if you create these on some other system. This is not necessarily a problem for fixed disk drives, as one would probably format these using the NTFS file system anyways. But on removable media like external firewire disks it is often desireable to format these using the FAT32 format for exchanging data with non-Windows systems. If you still have a bootable Windows 98/ME on your system you can boot this and create the large FAT32 file system using the older Windows version. As rebooting is inconvenient and I do have only XP on my system, I ported the Linux mkdosfs command line tool to Windows. This tool allows you to format FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB from the Windows NT/2K/XP command line. To format drive X: one would type:

c:\>mkdosfs -v -F 32 -n volname X:

The option -v is for verbose execution, -F 32 for FAT32 (16 is the default) and -n volname is the desired volume label. Mkdosfs determines the volume size from the partition table. For advanced usage consult the manual page in the zip archive or run mkdosfs without arguments to print the usage information.

Download the mkdosfs.zip archive containing a compiled Windows binary or download the dosfstools-2.11.src.zip archive containing the source code.

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Rename a batch of photos using Windows XP

Rename a batch of photos using Windows XP

When you download images from your digital camera to your computer, the file names of the images have nothing to do with the events or scenes in the pictures. Renaming each file manually is time-consuming, but using this Windows XP technique, you can quickly rename a folder of digital photos all at once. When you use this technique on a folder, all the files in the folder end up with a single name (including a sequential number) that relates to the subject of the images. Using this technique to rename your digital photos makes it easier to locate the one you’re looking for at a later date—a photo named museum of flight august (18).JPG, for example, is easier to find than that some photo named DSCN1518.JPG.

1. View the photos in your folder using the Details view
2. Select a bunch of photos
3. Right click on the first photo on the selection (at the top)
4. Change the name ie Wedding Set 1 and ENTER
5. Voila – the other photos will have their filenames changed accordingly.