Is FAT32 not restricted to 32GBytes?
No, The FAT32 format can cope with disks of up to 2 TB (2000GB). The issue here is that Microsoft, in their wisdom, restricted their formatting program in Windows XP and Vista to making FAT32 partitions of 32GB or less. Allegedly they were keen to move people onto drives using their newer NTFS format which had the incidental effect of being incompatible with Mac computers…. As you’ll probably know, most USB2 disk drives you can buy will be 500GB or 1TB nowadays so if you format the drive directly from within XP or Vista you’ll only be using a tiny fraction of the disk space available. That’s why we’ve built formatting directly into the BBR software.
