Downloads and FAT32

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Someone I know is running XP with FAT32.
He says that he is having trouble downloading large files (4 GB) using
BitTorrent.

Is there any reason why having FAT32 rather than NTFS would cause problems
when downloading large files?
 
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darkrats said:
Someone I know is running XP with FAT32.
He says that he is having trouble downloading large files (4 GB) using
BitTorrent.

Is there any reason why having FAT32 rather than NTFS would cause
problems when downloading large files?
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Only if the files was larger than 4 GB.

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darkrats said:
Someone I know is running XP with FAT32.
He says that he is having trouble downloading large files (4 GB) using
BitTorrent.

Is there any reason why having FAT32 rather than NTFS would cause problems
when downloading large files?
Click to expand...

Yes. If you want to use 4 gig files then convert to the NTFS format.
 
darkrats said:
Someone I know is running XP with FAT32.
He says that he is having trouble downloading large files (4 GB)
using BitTorrent.

Is there any reason why having FAT32 rather than NTFS would cause
problems when downloading large files?
Click to expand...

FAT32 only supports file sizes up to 4GB. After that - no go.
 
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