I thought WinXP had an internal "size limit" of 32G to force
(well gently prod??) people into using NTFS.
But, IF "something else" formats it, (third party app.), xp will use larger
sizes.
I never hit the "top limit" someone else mentioned since I like smaller
partitions for back-up reasons...
Rick Glazier
From: "Anthony Q. Martin"
Subject: Re: [H] FAT32 under WinXPSP2
Nothing worked.....format /FS:fat32 would crap at the end saying the volume was too big. Finally, I used Acronis to set the type
for FAT32 after the volume was id as NTFS....
FORC5 wrote:
can do from drive management
fp
At 12:39 PM 7/4/2007, Anthony Q. Martin Poked the stick with:
of course, you can't format a folder....but neither of my systems will offer the option for a FAT32 format via right click on a
drive icon...
even disk administrator won't do it. And that's for a lowly 40 GB drive, too. I could drop to a command box and get it done
with the format e: /fs:fat32 option that Thane mentioned, however.
Winterlight wrote:
Doesn't seem to be an option that shows up in explorer w/ a right click /
format operation.
you have to be in non folder...icon view to format from explorer
