Originally posted by novacain
>>He was able to fdisk it. If it wasn't auto-detecting it, fdisk would have said "No fixed disk found" or something to that extent.

Actually, if you replaced a 20Gb HD with a 60Gb HD and did not tell the BIOS (or had autodetect on) then fdisk'ed it, the maximum partion available would be 20Gb.

>>I ask because FAT32 simply cannot handle a partition size of over 32 gigs.

News to me and a big shock to my 40Gb HD (with a single partion) on Win98SE.
FAT32 supports sizes up to 2TB (thats 2048GB), although certain implementations (win2k i believe) only support up to 32GB FAT32 partitions.