nard drive installation

[Guest]

Why when inside of Disk Management are you able to fdisk a drive, partition
it and then when you go to format it your only option is NTFS? Then if you go
to the Command Window and type "format D: /fs:fat32" it will check the disk
for errors which takes a long time on a 100gig HD and returns an error
message that states "Disk is too large for FAT32"? But yet you can boot with
a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, re-partition, reboot then format the disk with
no problem? Why is there a limitation inside of XP? Both from Disk Manager
inside of Admin Tools and from the DOS window?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314463&Product=winxp

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| Why when inside of Disk Management are you able to fdisk a drive, partition
| it and then when you go to format it your only option is NTFS? Then if you go
| to the Command Window and type "format D: /fs:fat32" it will check the disk
| for errors which takes a long time on a 100gig HD and returns an error
| message that states "Disk is too large for FAT32"? But yet you can boot with
| a Win98 boot disk, run FDISK, re-partition, reboot then format the disk with
| no problem? Why is there a limitation inside of XP? Both from Disk Manager
| inside of Admin Tools and from the DOS window?

 

[Guest]

Is that changeable in a registry some where?