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Interoperability and FAT32
Authored by: keitme on Jan 04, '03 10:29:33AM

The limit for a FAT32 partition is 2 terabytes under Windows 9x OS's. The maximum size that can be used under Windows 2000 is 32 gigabytes (This is a limitiation of the file system driver for Windows 2000). Windows XP can only format a FAT32 partition up to 32 gigabytes at the time it is installed, but once up and running the maximum size it will format is 2 terabytes.

So if you want to interoperate with a 2k box, 32 gigabytes is the limit.

The maximum size for a single file on a FAT32 partition is 4 gigabytes.
NTFS has a maximum partition size and file size of 16 exabytes.



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