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Macbook Air Flash Drive Size After Formatting
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I bought a 64GB mac book air which is a flash drive
When I formatted this in FAT32 mode I am left with 56GB
Is that normal?
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Sounds about right. Apart from the fact you want to format it FAT32 which is just plain wrong.
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep 
Sounds about right. Apart from the fact you want to format it FAT32 which is just plain wrong.
I want to use this a s a 100% Windows machine - Where does the other 8GB go?
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They come with an invisible diagnostic partition. The rest will be formatting.
I know you want to use it for Windows only, thats whats wrong.
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There's almost no reason to use FAT anymore for anything more than small flash drives. Use NTFS if it's going to be a Windows drive.
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Ditto: if you want to use Windows, you should use NTFS. I guess you even need to format it as NTFS to install Windows 7 on it.
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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yeah, the OP won't get a choice. BC partitions and formats for fat32, but Vista and 7 require NTFS so they'll just do it that way.
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I recently discovered exFAT in disk utility. I did peruse the wiki on it... Any of you have any thoughts on that format?
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