Largest file size is 4GB on FAT32. File size is virtually unlimited on NTFS.
up to 2048GB
32 GB
15641894189 kibbles"Your so stupid32 GB"You're only partly right and can't spell.32GB is the largest FAT32 partition Windows XP will create. However, Windows XP works fine with FAT32 partitions up to 2TB (2000 GB) The easy answer is to create the partition with Windows 98 or something like Parted Magic. Useful information for the large capacity portable hard drives available now. Formatting those to NTFS can be a permissions nightmare on multiple PCs and multiple accounts.
Windows XP only recognizes FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS partitions. If it is not one of these (such as ext3 or ReiserFS), it will report it as an "unknown partition."
If you are installing windows XP with Windows 9x or me than the I would recommend you to use FAT32 as if you use NTFS than you wont be able to access Windows XP with NTFS partition. If you are installing Windows XP with Windows NT or Windows 2000 than you can use any partition type. But I would recommend to use NTFS.
NFTS would be the main one and FAT32
NTFS is the file system that windows XP uses; I know that much. NTFS can handle bigger files than FAT32. FAT32 can handle 2GB files maximum. (So I'm told)
Windows XP's "most advanced filesystem" is merely the NT Filesystem (NTFS.). XP's latest version is 5.1. NTFS deprecated and replaced FAT32 for consumer Windows versions starting with XP, although NTFS itself has been a part of NT since the very beginning, and has existed since the Windows 3.11 days. FAT32 is now basically relegated to removable media.
A NTFS hard drive supports one million terabytes. XP requires the 64bit version to handle more than 2 terabytes. Windows XP can mount and read FAT32 disk's up to 8 terabytes, but you can only format FAT32 below 32 gigabytes during the installation of Windows XP.
No. It should be accessible from any operating system that supports FAT32, including all versions of Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
from windows not likely. fat32 is what some of the ram and usb sticks use
FAT and FAT32