[Ham-Computers] FAT32, How many partitions?

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Phil,

Let's back up a bit here.  You say that you have 132 GB of old radio programs 
but I presume that it isn't all in one file.  If that's the case, unless you 
are going to build a new hard drive for the friend in order to give (or sell 
or whatever) the programs to him, then questions of NTFS or FAT32 are N/A.  

To answer your other question (maximum number of partitions regardless of 
what format they are in), I believe the limit to be 24.  C through Z.  At least 
I've never seen any non-alphabetic characters used to refer to drives.

In a message dated 1/9/2007 11:48:40 PM Central Standard Time, 
stpatrick3 at twlakes.net writes: 
> >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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