In brief: It's taken nearly three decades but Microsoft is finally increasing the FAT32 size limit. The long overdue change isn't widespread just yet – it's only available to Windows 11 insiders using ...

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 ...

In a significant update for Windows 11 users, Microsoft has eliminated the long-standing 32GB size limit for FAT32 partitions. This arbitrary restriction, in place for decades, has finally been lifted ...

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 ...

Yesterday, Microsoft sent out a new preview version of Windows 11 to Windows Insiders, and it holds an interesting change: the max size limit on FAT32 partitions is being bumped up to 2TB. FAT32 is a ...

In 1996, Microsoft introduced the FAT32 file system as an update to the previous version, FAT16. At the time, Microsoft imposed a limit on the creation of FAT32 partitions, deciding that the maximum ...