Re: FAT32 limit

From: Jerry (NoSpamChiefZeke_at_MSN.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:47:18 -0700

Boot using a Win 98, SE or ME floppy and run FDISK to create partitons
larger than 32Gb then format them. Once that's done XP will see the drive
just fine.

"Matrix" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:37a901c49d69$7eb710b0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> What is the FAT32 format limit in size?
>
> I have a 160GB HDD and I have Devided it some as 50GB and
> some as 10GB drives.
> My windows let me format the 10GB Drives as FAT32 and
> NTFS,
> but the 50GB drives I can format only as NTFS.
>
> I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2.
> What can be the cause that I can't format the 50GB with
> the FAT32 format?

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