Silver Slimer wrote:
On 2016-11-25 6:06 PM, 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.
Thank you in adance.
There are limitations to FAT32 partition sizes as far as I know. The
same way that FAT16 was limited to 2GB (if I remember correctly), FAT32
has limitations of 4GB for file sizes so it would be an issue for you
going forward and the filesystem is therefore to be avoided.
https://wiki.vuze.com/w/FAT32_file_size_limit
To get around the FAT32 file size limit, you
can use stuff like a segmented ZIP.
If you had a 7GB DVD, it could be stored as three
2GB chunks and a smaller last chunk.
That makes FAT32 fine for sneakernet transfers,
but segmented ZIPs aren't all that convenient
otherwise.
Your movie player won't know what to do with the ZIP.
Paul