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2000 FAT32 Max partiton size?

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by northwood

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What is the maximum size you can create a FAT 32 partition using windows 2000 Professional?

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by r. a. caluste

The Maximum partition size for the fat, fat32 and ntfs are the ff:

FAT: 4 GB
FAT32: 2 TB (Terabytes)
NTFS (v.5): 16 EB (Exabytes = 1 eb is 1 billion gigabyte or 2^64 bytes)

Take note that these are the maximum theorical limit. Practically however, in NTFS a partition of 2 TB and in FAT32, 32 GB is the upper limit; which means, you can format those drives up that limit only.

If you have a large hdd (over 40 GB) I recommend going for NTFS.

hope this helps.

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