Re: Does FAT32 restrict me to max filesize of 4GB?

From: DanS (t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t_at_a.d.e.l.p.h.i.a..n.e.t)
Date: 01/30/05


Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:16:45 -0600


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>
> My thanks and yours crossed, so thanks again. I *can* see reasons why
> I might want to access files in my currently front line OS partition -
> at the moment, if anything serious goes wrong in the XP partition, I
> can operate with win98se but may need to dig stuff out of the XP
> partition - that was why I kept everything in FAT32. However, I have
> now made a start on work with DVD video files and it would be awkward
> to have to split 4.7Gig files. So I think it will have to be goodbye
> to some of the flexibility I have at the moment.

You can alway's just use a slave drive formatted with NTFS for manipulating
giant video files, and leave the O/S, and all program's on a FAT32 drive.



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