Found spotlight-v100 hidden folder in FAT32 partition

On my macbook, I have created a FAT32 partition using bootcamp and found .spotlight-v100 hidden folder and other files with it. I cannot remove them and they stopped me from formatting the partition to NTFS. Please help~~~!!!. I am new to mac and please provide me walkthrough step by step. Really don't understand how they can get into the newly created blank FAT32 partition in the first place.
Regards,
macbie

My drive that I wanted to format was the 3rd partition which was named as Drive E by bootcamp (C installed XP and D is default DVD ROM drive). The Drive E was formatted as FAT32 with cluster size 512k. I did some research on internet and was recommended to convert it to NTFS with cluster size 4096k. I did the conversion and it ended up with NTFS but size still remains at 512k. I tried to reformat it using different methods with no success. Each time I started to format it, the process proceeded with no problem until at the end, an warning message popped out : 'This drive cannot be formatted'. I have no clue why it happened like that since the drive has nothing in it except with 2 different folders created by window: Recycler and system volume information.
I want to change cluster size because FAT32 format does not support file size larger than 4G. So, how can I change the cluster size? Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated!!!
Macbie

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Blueharvest is the best. you can do it for free yourself but it will require some extra work.
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
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color: #000000;
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overflow: auto;"
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Back up all data before proceeding.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
/.Spotlight-V100
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Open
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Hi all,
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Ok, thx

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Ok, I finally understand.
redhedhs wrote:
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savante wrote:
Hey guys. I'm having some troubles with partitioning an external USB drive in disk utility.
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Is there anyway I can do this or do I need to stick to 2 partitions if I want the fat32 partition to be readable by windows?
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Wow. Thanks for the extremely quick responses. Just for a few points of clarification.. I'm a complete newb at backing up strategies.
Steve, you would recommend to not backup files from my Mac OSX and files from Windows (also on my Mac) on the same drive, correct?
I appreciate the strategy of using it only as a backup, that makes quite a bit of sense. However, if I want to only backup my OSX files, and also store (solely as backup copies) say, a number of computer models (Rhino, Revit, etc.) that were created in Windows programs (not needing to store the entire Windows disk), would it not make sense to store these on the same drive in a different partition, creating the need for two different partition formats? And if I were to do this, maybe I should use NTFS instead of FAT32 (and reformat to GUID since that seems to be a standard for Apple and Windows 7 recognizes it..?) to keep them completely separate since the computer model files cannot be opened unless running the Windows programs.
How do you use your drive with HFS+ and NTFS if not for backups? I will not need to access the HFS+ backup files in Windows, nor need to access files from an NTFS partition in OSX, so that seems to simplify things in that, at least at the moment, I will not need any Paragon software.
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