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Why Microsoft removed FAT32 and replaced it with exFAT in Win7?

The Day Dreamer

The Day Dreamer

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Why is it so? Some technical reason? Help me out. Thanks 🙄

Edit - I meant in the disk partition manager of theirs.
 
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Definitely not removed. I was just formatting a flash drive the other day so I could copy an Yosemite .dmg file to it to move to a Mac. FAT32 was an option listed, and I considered it for a moment (as it works with both Windows and Mac), but since the file was 7.6 GB, I chose exFAT.
 
ketchup79 said:
I think that's his problem. Flash drives will continue to grow, but FAT32 has a hard limit of 32 GB for a partition.
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And. considering that the average size of today's HDDs is 1TB, a 32GB partition would hardly make the noise level. I see it as a result of storflation. 😛)
 
Well, 32GB isn't really a hard limit for fat32 partitions, but it's a MS imposed one in everything post-XP. 4GB is the hard file size limit for fat32 though, and that alone is about enough to trade it for exfat. I don't think you can boot off an exfat partition though, and I think that's all that fat32 still has over exfat now.

Edit: Here you go, so you can still make 64GB linux usb boot drives from windows:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/windows-and-office/format-fat32-drives-beyond-32gb-limit/
 
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