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Virtual Disk Service error: The volume size is too big

I'm using DiskPart to attempt to format a 64GB microsd using Fat32.  I started by running "clean all", then created a Primary Partition and selected it, and finally ran "format fs=fat32".  It appeared to be formatting; however, upon reaching 100% it gave the error message in my title above.  I'm doing this on a 64-bit version of Windows Pro 8.1, if that helps.  This is a Dell Venue Pro 11 tablet that has a microsd slot specifically, so I'm not going through any adapters.

Thank you in advance,
Adam Arnold
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If it were possible... I would not only split the 500 points equally between Seth Simmons' and magarity's answers, but also mark them both as the Best Solution.  I bought the 64GB microsd in hopes of keeping `Ghost images on it as extra storage (to save my tablet's hard drive); However, I also wanted to make it bootable so I could put it in a USB adapter when I needed to deploy one of the images.  If it were only extra storage, I would absolutely follow magarity's suggestion and make it NTFS.  But because I've had intermittent problems with a couple of `Ghost-bootable, NTFS-formatted flash drives in the past... I wanted to stick w/Fat32.  Looks like the real answer is to keep my 64GB microsd as extra storage Only (formatted NTFS), and to just get a 32GB microsd to use for `Ghosting.  I'll most likely try the Fat32 formatter suggested by Seth to see how it works, but I'd hate to be onsite to deploy an image only to find out that the target machine wouldn't recognize the microsd/USB adapter "flash drive" because it was formatted using a non-default sector size.

Thanks to all,
Adam Arnold