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    making a fat32 partition

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by toppy23, Apr 21, 2007.

  1. toppy23

    toppy23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I currently have 4 partitions on my hard drive: 40gb for windows xp, 20gb for ubuntu 7.04, and 1.5gb for the ubuntu swap partition. (i got fed up with vista)

    The remaining 50gb I want to turn into a fat32 partition so that i will be able to share files between linux and windows.

    I am able to format the remaining 50gb into NTFS format (using disk management in windows xp).

    But for some strange reason, I can't turn the 50gb partition into FAT32!?!?

    Please help!!

    Thanks in advance.
     
    toppy23, Apr 21, 2007
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  2. sesshomaru

    sesshomaru Suspended Disbelief!

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    Microsoft limits the maximum size of fat32 partitions to 32 GB, under WinXP, and 2000 SP4 and upwards. You would need to use a 3rd party tool to go over that limit.
    However, both OSes can address and write to larger FAT32 partitions, created by other OS.
     
    sesshomaru, Apr 21, 2007
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    toppy23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    thanks for the quick reply! I've shrunk it down to 30gb and it worked!

    reps added
     
    toppy23, Apr 21, 2007
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    You can have larger FAT32 partitions.. Just use something like partition magic, azeureus suite etc...
     
    sesshomaru, Apr 21, 2007
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