Os x thinks partition is a camera

After installing boot camp, I partitioned my external hd to have one partition as fat32 so I could have some more space, but now every time I open up iPhoto, the import photo screen comes up for that partition even though there aren't even pictures on it. How do I make it so the computer doesn't think the partition is a camera?
MacBook Pro 15"   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   also running windows xp

The difficulty is that it's formatted in FAT32, which is a format used by a lot of Camera Cards. I don't think you can avoid this problem without reformatting it. iPhoto does not treat disks formatted as Mac OS Extended in this way.
I'm curious as to why you think you'll get more space from formatting in FAT 32? You do realise that while the Mac will read and write to it, it's not at all uncommon for files to lose their suffixes and become apparent 'Unix Executables' when stored on FAT32 disks
Regards
TD

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