Create VHD (virtual disk) from Windows on TC to avoid FAT32 issue.

To answer another thread,

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7634417?answerId=30518554022#30518554022

I spent a bit of time messing around with fixing the FAT32 limitations from windows, by using the same trick Time Machine does, ie create a virtual disk on the TC and write to that instead.

This is not a question but would appreciate others giving it a try.

I have a newly installed Win10 on a computer to run this configuration.

Open the Computer Management /Disk Management.

Create a VHD on the TC drive. (My test device was a Gen4 2TB).

I used a size of 100GB and VHD rather than VHDX ..

It took sometime to create the file and it might need a reboot of the computer and open the network to connect to it.. you can then open disk management again.. I set it as GUID drive and formatted it NTFS.

I have it mounted now and can copy files larger than 4GB FAT32 limit to it.

No idea how well this will work long term.. but it might help someone else.

I am still checking if the TC disk will spin down even with the virtual disk open.