In a significant update for Windows 11 users, Microsoft has eliminated the long-standing 32GB size limit for FAT32 partitions. This arbitrary restriction, in place for decades, has finally been lifted ...

Microsoft righted an age-old “wrong” (at least for those who geek out on disk formatting) earlier this week. With its latest Windows 11 Insider Canary Preview Build (via The Verge), the company ...

Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB. FAT32 is a ...

The FAT32 size limit is moving from 32GB to 2TB in the latest Windows 11 builds. The FAT32 size limit is moving from 32GB to 2TB in the latest Windows 11 builds. is a senior editor and author of ...

As we wait for this fall’s Windows 11 24H2 update to be released to the general public, work continues on other new features that could be part of other future Windows updates. A new Canary channel ...

In 1996, Microsoft introduced the FAT32 file system as an update to the previous version, FAT16. At the time, Microsoft imposed a limit on the creation of FAT32 partitions, deciding that the maximum ...

Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...