Format a large drive in FAT32

Written April 14, 2009 in Note-To-Self

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This weekend, I had the need to format an 80GB USB drive as FAT32, so that the DivX AVI files on it would play on a standalone HDD recorder. To my dismay, Windows XP wouldn’t format the drive as FAT32, since it was larger than the 32GB “limit”.

I found this article, which provided a very easy solution – an executable tool called “fat32format.exe”, which ignored the 32GB “limit”