Does Windows 7 RC (build 7100) support FAT32 partitions?
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Does Windows 7 RC (build 7100) support FAT32 partitions?
I have just installed the public RC build of Win7 to do some emulator testing / benchmarking and see if Win7 performs good enough on old hardware.
The RC build (7100) was supposed to bring back R/W support for FAT32 partitions that was removed in the beta, but to my surprise, Windows 7 still thinks that my FAT32 partition doesn't exist!
I have two partitions on the hard drive - the first one is formatted with the FAT32 f.s. and the second one (the Win7 system partition) with NTFS.
Is there any way to get this partition recognized (even read-only) by Windows 7?
Is this an issue in the final (RTM, b7600) version of Win7 as well?
The RC build (7100) was supposed to bring back R/W support for FAT32 partitions that was removed in the beta, but to my surprise, Windows 7 still thinks that my FAT32 partition doesn't exist!
I have two partitions on the hard drive - the first one is formatted with the FAT32 f.s. and the second one (the Win7 system partition) with NTFS.
Is there any way to get this partition recognized (even read-only) by Windows 7?
Is this an issue in the final (RTM, b7600) version of Win7 as well?
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Windows 7 does not assign drive letters to secondary system drives.
........which by now anyone who has google access should know how to fix.
........which by now anyone who has google access should know how to fix.
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I'm still using 7127 and it reads a fat32 flash drive no problem. if I wasn't so lazy I'd install the retail version.
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Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\>format /?
Formats a disk for use with Windows.
FORMAT volume [/FS:file-system] [/V:label] [/Q] [/A:size] [/C] [/X] [/P:passes]
[/S:state]
FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/F:size] [/P:passes]
FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/T:tracks /N:sectors] [/P:passes]
FORMAT volume [/V:label] [/Q] [/P:passes]
FORMAT volume [/Q]
volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon),
mount point, or volume name.
/FS:filesystem Specifies the type of the file system (FAT, FAT32, exFAT, NTFS,
or UDF).
/V:label Specifies the volume label.
/Q Performs a quick format. Note that this switch overrides /P.
/C NTFS only: Files created on the new volume will be compressed
by default.
/X Forces the volume to dismount first if necessary. All opened
handles to the volume would no longer be valid.
/R:revision UDF only: Forces the format to a specific UDF version
(1.02, 1.50, 2.00, 2.01, 2.50). The default
revision is 2.01.
/D UDF 2.50 only: Metadata will be duplicated.
/A:size Overrides the default allocation unit size. Default settings
are strongly recommended for general use.
NTFS supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K.
FAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K,
(128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes).
FAT32 supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K,
(128K, 256K for sector size > 512 bytes).
exFAT supports 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16K, 32K, 64K,
128K, 256K, 512K, 1M, 2M, 4M, 8M, 16M, 32M.
Note that the FAT and FAT32 files systems impose the
following restrictions on the number of clusters on a volume:
FAT: Number of clusters <= 65526
FAT32: 65526 < Number of clusters < 4177918
Format will immediately stop processing if it decides that
the above requirements cannot be met using the specified
cluster size.
NTFS compression is not supported for allocation unit sizes
above 4096.
/F:size Specifies the size of the floppy disk to format (1.44)
/T:tracks Specifies the number of tracks per disk side.
/N:sectors Specifies the number of sectors per track.
/P:passes Zero every sector on the volume passes times. This switch is
not valid with /Q
/S:state Where "state" is either "enable" or "disable"
Short names are enabled by default
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Re: Does Windows 7 RC (build 7100) support FAT32 partitions?
kick wrote:Is this an issue in the final (RTM, b7600) version of Win7 as well?
Why yes, my shift key *IS* broken.
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FAT32: 65,526 < Number of clusters < 4,177,918
or its just format limitation?
in any case, it quite lame as previous version could do better.
only if you believe that a square is not a rectangle...franpa wrote:neither build 7600 or 7127 are the Release Candidate build (build 7100)
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