Hard drive partition question

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From within XP you can't make a FAT32 drive larger than 32Gb but from
real-mode DOS or some other proram'outside' of XP you can make FAT32 drives
as large as you want.

"Ferdy" <fredjr1@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Question, though, to group---why does acronis partition the secondary
> external drive in FAT 32? Why not NTFS? As a matter of fact, I didn't
> think FAT 32 was even possible on a drive that big (80 GB).
>