smlunatick said:
The only problems formatting hard drives (any) is the fact that
starting with XP we can not create FAT32 hard drive "partitions" in
excess of 32 GB natively with Windows Disk Management.
Actually FAT32 support came to be with Windows 2000 (NT could only
handle FAT16 & NTFS) and Windows 2000 too was limited to formating FAT32
volumes to a maximum size of 32GB. This was not a technical inability
of Windows 2000, it's was a limit imposed to reduce or curb the use of
inefficient FAT32 volumes on enterprise class workstations.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2006.07.windowsconfidential.aspx
Windows Confidential A Brief and Incomplete History of FAT32
Note that although Windows 2000/XP are limited in the size of the FAT32
volume that they can format they can mount any size FAT32 disks prepared
by other operating systems.
John