if you had a 3TB drive, you couldn’t format it as a single FAT32 partition. For example, if you had a large video file over 4GB in size, you just couldn’t save it on the FAT32 file system. FAT32 only supports individual files up to 4GB in size and volumes up to 2TB in size.To understand why Windows uses NTFS, we have to look at the problems with FAT32 and how NTFS fixed them: Microsoft created NTFS to improve on FAT32 in a variety of different ways. The Problems With FAT32 (or Why Microsoft Created NTFS)