Re: Fdisk vs WinXP

cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) wrote:


Firstly, XP's built-in partitioning tools are deficient,....
That's arguable. They meet the purpose for which they were designed, do they not?

No, they do not. The OS feature set encompasses FAT32 volumes > 32G,
which the tools are incapable of creating.


But *that* limitation is by deliberate design, so the tool meets its given purpose.


More seriously, if you use the non-GUI Diskpart tool to create or
format such volumes, the process fails destructively:
- initiates the process
- continues for a long time (presumably, 32G)
- aborts with a "too large" error
- leaves the disk space broken (no Undo)


Again, this is irrelevant to the initial installation of the OS, and is by design. Remember, FAT32 is a *legacy* file system, of little use nowadays.




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