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Originally Posted by dwig
Unless you've partitioned the drive into many small volumes, this is a MAJOR NO-NO.
FAT32 volume size is a maximum of 32Gb. NEVER attempt to use FAT32 on any logical volume larger than 32Gb.
Reformat the drive as exFAT to maintain cross-platform support and to allow larger logical volumes. exFAT can easily handle 256Gb volumes.
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Minor nit. in theory, FAT32 will support up to a 8TB drive (arguably, a 16TB drive but FAT32, 64K clusters and Microsoft OS are not a good mix). The 32GB limit is an artificial limit set by Microsoft(
*). At one point, I formatted and used an external 2TB USB drive formatted as FAT32. It worked but I kept trying to copy files over 4GB-1 to it so finally reverted it to exFAT.
* To quote from part of the Windows XP online documentation, "
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits)". Microsoft KB310525 (though it seems to have disappeared) covered much of this information.