I have a fuji s2 and got a 4 gig drive to work, it was very frustrating though..... First off I tried using my "jump shot" card reder from lexar and went to my wifes work and it was not even recognized on their xp machine, wasn't on my 98se either..... I bought a new card reader (sandisk 8 in 1) and now my computer would see it and I formatted it as fat 32. Now at least it was recognized! I decided to take the card reader into my work (we have xp also) and formatted it as "FAT" left cluster size as default. It formatted, took it home and put it into the fuji and got the dreaded initialization error! Darn! I was still not going to give up.....
I downloaded boot it next generation, it is a free program for 30 days. I had heard this would work by other fuji members. I will provide a link at the end of this message. Anyways this program works in dos, when you get the program downloaded unzip it and click on the booting.exe icon in the unzipped folder. It will ask you if you agree to the terms etc... It will then Ask you to put a blank floppy into your computer and it will make a bootable disk. After that is complete you will restart your computer and will load boot it. Now here you will need xp if you have a card reader (usb type) as windows 98 will not recognize a card reader in dos. I did it with 98se and an ide reader on my wifes computer, but could not do it with a usb reader in 98se. xp should recognize your usb reader. With card inserted make sure you are in partition manager and at the top left make sure you have the radio button for the drive selection correctly on the microdrive (you do not want to erase your computer). What i foind was that there were 4 MBR'S on my drive (master boot records) which, even though formatted, caused the fuji not to work with the drive. Click on each of the mbr's and delete them untill you have no mbr's listed, just 3906mb free. Then click on the right side "create" a screen will pop up and say new mbr, and there is a check box to format click that box as well. Another screen will come up and you can select the type format, select fat 16 6/6h, and make sure in the box where it shows how much you want to format it for it is for all of the space (3906mb or so). Now there is also a dropdown for cluster size, make sure you select 64kb. It will warn you that it is only for win 2000 and xp, that's ok. Click ok and it will format the drive (and does it fast) then it goes to surface scan, you can click skip if you wish. Now drive is formatted for use in the s2. Remove floppy and boot into windows. When there click on the drive as to look at it's contents and make sure there is no trash can in it, if there is delete it. Put it in camera and you are ready to go. Remember your remaining frame counter will not display correctly and you cannot format in camera, but for the 4 gig's you have it is a reasonable tradeoff!
www.findsoftonline.com/bootit_next_generation_download_9215.html
Reguards,
Rob Perry

Gavin Cato wrote:
> hi john,
>
> would you mind running me through what steps you took? I'm trying
> with XP as well but no luck, always get errors when I put the card
> in the S2.
>
> cheers
>
> Gav
>
>
> John Fulton wrote:
> >
> > Hi Howard,
> > I just finished formatting and trying the 4 gig Hitachi in my S2
> > and it works fine. The counter does not reflect an accurate number
> > of images but the S2 writes to it and I have downloaded from a card
> > reader to PC and the numbering is in order there.
> > You will not be able to format the drive in camera but you can
> > erase images with no problem. The formatting when needed will have
> > to be done on a card reader. I am running Win XP and it did the job
> > fine start to finish.
> >
> > JHF
>