Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > >On May 16, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >> >>> You can get what you want, but you need to set the drive up for it. >>> >>> Windows XP limits the size of a FAT32 drive to 32Gbytes when >>> formatting, they want you to use NTFS. >> >> I have a 250 gig drive formatted FAT32 in Windows. > >Might be a version thing. Last time I went to do this, Win XPP *would >not* allow me to create a volume greater than 32Mbytes with its >supplied utilities.
That's weird. It supports FAT32 volumes up to 130 gig without doing anything special. For larger volumes you just have to enable 48-bit LBA, which is simple to do - and I would have expected that most computers would be set up than way by default now, given typical hard drive sizes.
