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<blockquote data-quote="baggss" data-source="post: 176919" data-attributes="member: 6762"><p>From <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp" target="_blank">HERE</a></p><p></p><p><em>A FAT32 volume must have a minimum of 65,527 clusters. Windows XP Professional can format FAT32 volumes up to 32 GB, but it can mount larger FAT32 volumes created by other operating systems... </em> and <em>..In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other operating systems.</em></p><p></p><p>It appears you will have to use something other than WinXP to format the drive as one FAT-32 unit, but once it is formatted WinXP will read it fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="baggss, post: 176919, member: 6762"] From [url=http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp]HERE[/url] [i]A FAT32 volume must have a minimum of 65,527 clusters. Windows XP Professional can format FAT32 volumes up to 32 GB, but it can mount larger FAT32 volumes created by other operating systems... [/i] and [i]..In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other operating systems.[/i] It appears you will have to use something other than WinXP to format the drive as one FAT-32 unit, but once it is formatted WinXP will read it fine. [/QUOTE]
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