Re: need help on vfat partition

[Long Wind <longwind2@yahoo.com>]

Thank Georgi Naplatanov!

it seems that Windows 98 is more powerful

i have format it with ntfs

but i have no experience with ntfs

i still want to format with fat32

On Saturday, December 16, 2017 6:48 PM, Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> wrote:

On 12/16/2017 12:10 PM, Long Wind wrote:
> i create a vfat partition at sda7 using fdisk of linux
>
> partition id is set to b
>
> then i go to XP and format it but fail
>
> maybe the reason is the partition is too big
>
> it's more than 50G

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc938432.aspx

There is mentioned 32GB volume size limit for Windows' 2000 utility
program but that might be valid for Windows XP too.

> What should I do? Thanks!
>
> PS: the choice of vfat is that IMO vfat is more cross-platform

Linux supports read and write operations for NTFS. I'm not sure if macOS
and *BSDs support NTFS.

Kind regards
Georgi