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Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

Microsoft righted an age-old “wrong” (at least for those who geek out about disk formatting) earlier this week. With its latest Windows 11 Insider Canary Preview Build, the company increased the maximum FAT32 partition size limit from 32GB to 2TB when using the command line.

With its latest Windows 11 Insider Canary Preview Build ( via The Verge), the company increased the maximum FAT32 partition size limit from 32GB to 2TB when using the command line. So, the move appears to be more about making amends — a Windows geek’s equivalent of pardoning a historical figure who’s been dead for a century — than a practical change that will affect people today. If you really want to nerd out on ‘90s disk formats, Plummer’s three-year-old video goes into more detail about his arbitrary decision that — unbeknownst to him at the time — would last nearly 30 years.

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