Thread: Can't format 64 GB USB flash drives as FAT32?
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Old November 25th 16, 11:39 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Ken Blake[_3_]
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Default Can't format 64 GB USB flash drives as FAT32?
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 17:06:43 -0600, (Ant) wrote:

Hello.

I noticed both updated 64bit Windows 7 HPE SP1 & 10 EE won't let me
reformat my new 64 GB flash drives as FAT32 (default originally). Their
Explorers only gave me NTFS & exFAT. Why no old FAT32? Not everything
know exFAT & NTFS.


Since Windows XP, Windows has a limit on how large a FAT32
partition it can *create*. It's 32GB.

However it has no problem *using* a larger FAT32 partition if
created externally.