Microsoft is making a long-overdue adjustment to one of Windows’ oldest storage limitations, removing the 32GB formatting cap for FAT32 in recent Windows 11 Insider Preview builds.

Microsoft has released new test builds for Windows Insiders that include a significant change. After many decades and extensive preparatory work, Windows is removing a long-time storage limit for ...

The Windows team said in a blog post on Thursday: "When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we've increased the FAT32 size limit from 32GB to 2TB". The limit is only being ...

You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many times ...

The latest Windows 11 Insider Preview introduces changes to the native Storage menu and increases the FAT32 volume limit, ...

Microsoft is finally fixing Windows' slow storage management issues and lifting its longstanding limit on FAT32. For three decades, Windows has limited FAT32 partitions to a maximum size of 32GB, even ...

In a new preview version of Windows 11, Microsoft has changed a long-standing limitation of the FAT32 file system. The ...

Except for almost every UEFI computer where the all important boot partition (ESP) is by convention and by standard, FAT32. That's kind of a major use case if you want to boot your x86 PC. Apple is ...

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 ...

Microsoft, today, has released the newest builds to the Windows 11 Beta channel and Dev channel Insider programs for users flighting those channels. The Dev build is available under KB5083632 and ...

Here’s a roundup of some recent tech news from around the web. Windows can read FAT32 disk partitions up to 2TB. But until recently you needed a 3rd-party tool to create those partitions: Windows ...