Maximum FAT32 Partition - read carefully.

[Dave Sell]

All,

The question I have is:

Does anyone know of a utility that will create FAT32 partitions larger than 65GB?

I have tried WinXP and according to msdn:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp

it will only format a maximum FAT32 partition of up to 32GB, although theoritically it can recognize a FAT32 partition of up to 4TB as long as some other utility can create it.

I have Partition Magic 5.0 at home and was able to create 65GB FAT32 partitions with it, but no larger. I have a 160GB drive and would love a single big fat ;) partition.

Questions asking me why I don't use NTFS can be directed to my PM but please don't post them here as they are irrelevant to my question.

Thanks!

[dglienna]

it comes down to the maximum location that can be addressed using x-bytes of data. 160Gb just won't fit in 4 bytes, or whatever. There used to be translation software that would read large addresses for hard disks that were over a certain size, just as there were ways to address more than 512Mb of RAM in the early days.
Sorry I can't help further.

[whothis]

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044

might help..?

[Dave Sell]

Thanks, I'll check it out at home and see what it does.