Re: FDisk

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From: Tim Slattery (Slattery_T_at_bls.gov)
Date: 04/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 09:08:15 -0400

"cquirke (MVP Win9x)" <cquirkenews@nospam.mvps.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 13:32:04 -0700, "Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP
>
>>No it's not. However, the XP CD is bootable and will allow you to create,
>>delete and format from within setup.
>
>Limitation: It fails when trying to format FAT32 volumes over 32G.

It doesn't actually fail, it just refuses to create FAT32 partitions
that large. Since XP can use NTFS, and NTFS is a much better choice
for huge partitions, XP will only create partitions larger than 32GB
with the NTFS file system.

If you have a disk containing a FAT32 partition larger than 32GB
(created someplace else, of course), XP will use it with no problems.
It just won't create such a thing itself. 

-- 
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov

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