News An actual Win11 improvement! FAT32 32GB formatting limit has been removed.

[mikeymikec]

New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks

But the Windows NT-era disk formatting UI hasn't been fixed yet.

arstechnica.com

Not particularly thrilling, but it's the unglamorous work in software development that should garner the most respect.

 

[lantis3]

File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Maximal sizes
The FAT32 boot sector uses a 32-bit field for the sector count, limiting the maximal FAT32 volume size to 2 terabytes with a sector size of 512 bytes. The maximum FAT32 volume size is 16 TB with a sector size of 4,096 bytes.[39][40] The built-in Windows shell disk format tool on Windows NT arbitrarily only supports volume sizes up to 32 GB,[nb 4] but Windows supports reading and writing to preexisting larger FAT32 volumes, and these can be created with the command prompt, PowerShell or third-party tools

Years ago Windows already supports read/write fat32 volume that's over 32GB, it just does not provide a tool that comes with Windows natively.