SSD, Hard Disk or Partition not detected when installing Windows 11/10 First, if you are reinstalling Windows and your PC is normally booted up, your HDD works fine.

If Mark Partition as Active, Change Drive Letter, Format, Extend, Shrink, Delete Volume options are greyed out in Disk Management, see this post.

Microsoft is finally removing the FAT32 partition size limit in Windows 11: FAT32 upgrades from 32GB limit, to 2TB in new Windows 11 builds.

The latest Canary release of Windows 11 (build 27686) increases the FAT32 size limit from 32GB to a much more modern 2TB. Note that this only applies to formatting disks from the command line ...

New Windows 11 build removes ancient, arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 disks But the Windows NT-era disk formatting UI hasn't been fixed yet.