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On Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:52:01 -0500, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
wrote:




>Larger sticks default to EX-FAT instead of FAT32, when it is possible to
>format them as FAT32. They come that way, and Microsoft's format program
>won't even give you the option of FAT32 at larger sizes.

Heheh. I bounced against this one hard when trying to update my
Windows98 computer to add a 300GB hard-drive. I'd remembered about
BIOS and FDISK limitations, but forgot that even on modern machines,
FORMAT wouldn't do more than a 32GB FAT32 drive.
(and EX-FAT isn't really a viable option for Windows98; there is a 3rd
party driver, but its not really ready-for-market yet)

The limitation in Microsoft's format program is artificial; the
programmer had to pick /some/ limit and -at the time- 32GB seemed so
impossibly huge that it didn't seem to matter. Microsoft never updated
the program ... probably in part because they wanted to push people to
NTFS (less for control --since unlike FAT, NTFS isn't patented-- but
because FAT is such a primative and fault-intolerant file-system they
wanted people to stop using it ASAP to make Windows look less terrible
:-)

>Any partition edit program or 3rd party formatter, however, will let you
>do this.

Although it probably won't matter as much with a hard-drive mostly
used for movies and such, cluster-sizes for FAT32 drives past 32GB
becomes problematic too. If your device is -as I believe you
indicated- cable of reading a 2TB HDD, then it probably supports EXFAT
(or possibly other file systems as well). So just format your 1TB
stick with the appropriate file-system (e.g., not FAT32) so you get
full capacity (931gB) and you should be good to go. Even Windows will
manage that ;-)