Originally Posted by mingkee
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the question is: how XP/Vista handle them
except MS release update to unlock FAT32 32GB border, these cards may not be usable
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FAT 32 does not havea 32g limit.. the formating prog does. there are ways to do it ...this is from wikipedia
File Allocation Table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
heres a small extract
"Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 file systems of any size, but the format program included in Windows 2000 and higher can only create FAT32 file systems of 32 GB or less. This limitation is by design[6] and was imposed because many tasks on a very large FAT32 file system become slow and inefficient.[10] The limitation can be bypassed with third-party formatting utilities."
and this
"Microsoft decided to implement a newer generation of FAT, known as FAT32, with cluster counts held in a 32-bit field, of which 28 bits are used to hold the cluster number, for a maximum of approximately 250 million (228) clusters. This would allow for drive sizes of up to 8 terabytes with 32K clusters, but the boot sector uses a 32 bit field for the sector count, limiting volume size to 2TB on a hard disk with 512 byte sectors."
CompactFlash Frequently Asked Questions
an excerpt...... "CF cards are available in capacities from 16MB to 12GB. The CF Specification can support capacities up to 137GB."