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Originally Posted by biikman |
Partition Magic can do that, but it's not something that I would recommend.
Windows will let you format any drive up to 32 GB using FAT32, and the file system itself is actually capable of going a lot bigger than that. Microsoft intentionally limited their formatting utilities to that size because FAT32 requires a pretty large cluster size for large partitions, meaning a lot of space can be wasted in file system overhead.
The only advantage that FAT32 has over NTFS is speed. FAT32 is noticeably quicker that NTFS but it does not have the security features and access control that NTFS affords.
Even if you don't use all its bells & whistles, there's a whole laundry list of improvements over FAT & FAT32 that make NTFS worth using: NTFS permissions, journaling, redundant master file tables, sparse files, smaller cluster size, file-level encryption and compression, software striping and spanning, mount points, etc.