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.

This tutorial explains how to format or convert a Hard Disk or a Partition to NTFS format, as it is file system that provides better performance and security for data.

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 ...

Microsoft is lifting a decades-old restriction on Windows that capped FAT32 disk formatting at 32GB. Instead, FAT32 formatting on Windows 11 will support partitions up to 2TB in size.

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.