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Old October 24th 06, 10:05 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware
VWWall
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Default Corrupt NTFS filesystem

Citizen Bob wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:57:15 GMT, VWWall
wrote:

What is the maximum file size with FAT32?


4GB minus two bytes.


Uh oh.


Uh yes--unless you want to argue about one byte!

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314463

quote
You cannot create a file larger than (2^32)-1 bytes (this is one byte
less than 4 GB) on a FAT32 partition.
/quote

Other Microsoft sources say "4 GB minus 2 bytes". Take your pick!

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Applies particularly to Microsoft articles! :-)

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