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Originally Posted by shindigo
I have since formatted my device as FAT and tried again with no luck. It is a 64Gb stick - any chance there is a size limit?
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FAT was traditionally limited to 4Gb. It seems to have been extended a bit. However,
a recent search turned up:
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You cannot decrease the cluster size on a volume using the FAT32 file system so that the FAT ends up larger than 16 MB less 64 KB in size.
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It sounds like Micros*** is utterly muddying the waters yet again; this is worse than traditional by several orders of magnitude.
They also included on the same page, probably more germane:
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You cannot format a volume larger than 32 GB in size using the FAT32 file system in Windows 2000. The Windows 2000 FastFAT driver can mount and support volumes larger than 32 GB that use the FAT32 file system (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create one using the Format tool. This behavior is by design. If you need to create a volume larger than 32 GB, use the NTFS file system instead.
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