-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 El 2007-01-26 a las 08:54 +0100, Camaleón escribió:
El 26/01/07, Carlos E. R. escribió:
Parece ser que no, que el windows no lo hace; hay que hacerlo con herramientas de terceros. Eso dicen en la wikipedia, al menos.
Aquí dice lo siguiente:
"(...) Windows XP can mount and support FAT32 volumes larger than 32 GB (subject to the other limits), but you cannot create a FAT32 volume larger than 32 GB by using the Format tool during Setup..."
Ni tampoco después: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/c13621675.mspx#... In theory, FAT32 volumes can be about 8 terabytes; however, the maximum FAT32 volume size that Windows XP Professional can format is 32 GB. Therefore, you must use NTFS to format volumes larger than 32 GB. However, Windows XP Professional can read and write to larger FAT32 volumes formatted by other operating systems. Y: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#FAT32 In order to overcome the volume size limit of FAT16, while still allowing DOS real-mode code to handle the format without unnecessarily reducing the available conventional memory, 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 currently used. In theory, this should support a total of approximately 268,435,456 (228) clusters, allowing for drive sizes in the range of 8 terabytes with 32K clusters. On Windows 95/98/ME, due to the version of Microsoft's ScanDisk utility included with these operating systems being a 16-bit application, the FAT structure is not allowed to grow beyond 4,177,920 (< 222) clusters, placing the volume limit at 127.53 gigabytes.[4]. This limitation does not apply to Windows XP.[5] ... Windows 2000 and Windows XP can read and write to FAT32 filesystems of any size, but the format program on these platforms can only create FAT32 filesystems up to 32 GB. Third party utilities are available which can format larger FAT32 filesystems. Thompson and Thompson (2003) write[6] that Bizarrely, Microsoft states that this behavior is by design. Microsoft's knowledge base article 184006[4] indeed confirms the limitation and the by design statement, but gives no rationale or explanation. Peter Norton's opinion[7] is that Microsoft has intentionally crippled the FAT32 file system. 4 Limitations of FAT32 File System. Microsoft Help and Support (December 16, 2004). Retrieved on 2006-10-14. 5 Limitations of the FAT32 File System in Windows XP. Microsoft Help and Support (September 4, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-01-24. 6 Thompson, Robert Bruce and Thompson, Barbara Fritchman; PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition,, O'Reilly, ISBN 0-596-00513-X (p. 506: Microsoft bizarrely saying the 32 GB limitation is by design) 7 Norton, Peter (2002); Peter Norton's New Inside the PC, Sams Publishing, ISBN 0-672-32289-7 (p. 428: Microsoft has intentionally crippled the FAT32 file system) Curioso, ¿no? Dado lo que dice Norton, me sospecho que lo han limitado para impulsar el NTFS. Por otro lado, pienso que una partición FAT grande debe ser muuuyyy peligrosa ;-) - -- Saludos Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFugPGtTMYHG2NR9URAvTNAJ4vzSorNf1G2xFhxpX6RLY6ODAAgwCfdGaS XWyEB44SqwelqVCHfIu2E64= =x/Of -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----