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Format Fat32 >32GB?

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cnhoff

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At work we have a 60 Gig harddrive, whith all of its capacity in one partition. I don't see how you can format a Fat32 partiotion with more than 32 GB.

Any suggestions?!
 
You can't with Win2K/XP's format tools, this is a limitation in those systems, not in FAT32.

Why would you want to anyway?
 
I don't see how you can format a Fat32 partiotion with more than 32 GB.
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it entirely possible using a win98 or ME startup floppy though storage will be very inefficient as the cluster size above 32,768 MB is 32 KB!
 
Originally posted by: bacillus
it entirely possible using a win98 or ME startup floppy though storage will be very inefficient as the cluster size above 32,768 MB is 32 KB!
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i agree ~ at least partition it in half.
for an OS 32k clusters will suck.
for a "storage drive" it wont really matter tho.

🙂
 
This is Microsoft's way of encouraging you to use a more robust, stable filesystem like NTFS.

I can't imagine why anyone would want to run a FAT partition of this size.
 
You'll have to get hold of some external utility to format it for you then.
I guess maybe Partition Magic could do this for you?
 
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