[Ham-Computers] FAT32, How many partitions?

[Dale Miller]

Philip wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> 73 de Phil,  KO6BB
> DX begins at the noise floor!

Phil, you can't create FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB in Win2K, XP or
Server2003.
This is because of a fdisk limit in those operating systems as per this
page.

http://www.petri.co.il/install_windows_xp_on_large_fat32_partitions.htm

Now you can make larger partitions with older the older versions of
fdisk but FAT32 can't save files bigger than "I think" it's 2GB in size.
You will have to have a NTFS to be able to save files that large.


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