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Date:	Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:36:59 -0800
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Large FAT32

In <4757FF18.8090506@charter.net>, on 12/06/07
at 08:54 AM, Ray davison said:

Hi,

>> At one time, FAT32 had a maximum partition size of 32 GB. Your W2K
>> driver might be out-of-date.

Everyone has a right to their own opinion.

>I don't really care what W2K can do.

It's easy enough to find out.

>I can live without it on the
>storage box. I was just trying to see if W2K could use the drive any
>better than OS/2; I guess not.

Based on what inforation? :-)

W2K will not create FAT32 partitions larger that 32GiB, but will use them
without complaining. See

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

http://www.petri.co.il/install_windows_xp_on_large_fat32_partitions.htm

Steven

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