[Ham-Computers] FAT32, How many partitions?

Ron Youvan ka4inm at tampabay.rr.com
Tue Jan 9 22:51:42 EST 2007


> I have a question about Hard drive partitioning.  I presently have about 
> 132GB of "OTR" (Old time radio programs) that reside on both a 320GB 
> drive in my computer AND on a 250GB external drive, both formatted as 
> NTFS.  A local friend wants me to copy this for him, but "prefers" FAT32 
> so the files can also be read under Win98.

> I'm under the impression that FAT32 can only be partitioned up to 32GB 
> and that there is a maximum number of FAT32 partitions that a drive can 
> have.

> Anybody know FOR SURE how many FAT32 partitions a drive can have and how 
> large they can be?

   How many DVD-R/DVD+R's will it take to hold them all?
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM


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