Reference number: CH000033

Determining if FAT32 is enabled.

Issue:

Determining if FAT32 is enabled.

Solution:

FAT32 is only available in Windows 95 rev2 (OSR2) (click here for instructions on determining revision), Windows 98 and Windows 2000. Please note that if you have Windows NT 4.0 or below, it does not support FAT32.

To determine if your drives are running in FAT32, open My Computer and highlight the drive you would like to see is using FAT32 / once highlighted, click on the drive with your right mouse button and click Properties. If the File system indicates FAT then the hard drive you selected is running FAT16. However, if the File system indicates FAT32 then your drive would be utilizing FAT32.

Additional information:

• Additional information about FAT32 can be found here.