MS-DOS, the original version of Microsoft Windows 95, and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0-and-earlier do not recognize FAT32 partitions, and are unable to start from a FAT32 volume.
Logical Disk Manager: Volume size too big. NOTE: When you attempt to format a FAT32 partition that is larger than 32 GB during the Windows XP installation process, the format operation fails near the end of the process, and you may receive the following error message: Another option is to start from a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk and use the Format tool included on the disk.įor additional information about how to use a Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me) Startup disk to format a hard disk, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:Ģ55867 ( ) How to Use Fdisk and Format to Partition/Repartition a Hard Disk If you need to format a volume that is larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system to format it. Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup.
You cannot format a volume larger than 32 gigabytes (GB) in size using the FAT32 file system during the Windows XP installation process. You cannot decrease the cluster size on a FAT32 volume so that the size of the FAT is larger than 16 megabytes (MB) minus 64 KB. The maximum disk size is approximately 8 terabytes when you take into account the following variables: The maximum possible number of clusters on a FAT32 volume is 268,435,445, and there is a maximum of 32 KB per cluster, along with the space required for the file allocation table (FAT). You cannot increase the cluster size on a volume that uses the FAT32 file system so that it contains fewer than 65,527 clusters. A FAT32 volume must contain a minimum of 65,527 clusters. If clusters are 64 KB or larger, some programs (such as Setup programs) may incorrectly calculate disk space. Clusters cannot be 64 kilobytes (KB) or larger. Note the following limitations when you use the FAT32 file system with Windows XP: The following information is quoted from Microsoft, You could download the utility from the following URL: įor the information about FAT32 limitation in Windows XP, please refer to Microsoft's online knowledgebase, If you want to format FAT32 more than 32GB in WindowsXP, you may need a third party utility to do this. Posted by - NA -, Last modified by on 16 June 2009 17:17
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