Maximum FAT32 Partition - read carefully.

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/d...c_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!

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.

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

might help..?

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