What can cause Windows 7 to prevent me from formatting 500 GB (actually 465 GB) external USB disk as FAT32? No matter, what I did (Windows Explorer, Disk Management), the only options I was presented were: exFAT and NTFS. Why? 465 GB is far lower than FAT32 partition size limit, right?
I had to install and use 3rd party program. And using it there was absolutely no problems (no errors, no objections) in finishing this task. Formatting it as 465 GB FAT32 disk took less than 30 seconds.
What am I missing here? Why Windows 7 prevented me to format this disk as FAT32 using native system tools?