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Unipod and Pen Drives
KGIII galen_greg...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp basics In news from this address: 2dff01c373cf$7e844cd0$a4012...@phx.gbl, And using this nick: Michol From this address: <michol.ba...@xilinx.com> Did not consult www.google.com and asked this: I need to format a CompactFlash device in FAT16 format with a

Formatting small CF cards FAT16
nottoo...@luvda.fuz alt windows98 you may want to say "no" to the option about large disks at the very beginning of the setup. Not sure, however. Also, with that route, you'll have to partition each 2 Gigs of HD you have....

Formatting ZIP disks
Partition Magic will enable you to format in FAT16 or convert from FAT32 back to FAT16 -- Harry Ohrn http://newlife-win98.server101.com "Mike" <yh...@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:01bee525$77327a20$163c4f0c@Worldnet... Does anybody know how to force a format with FAT16 in Windows 98 (Don't ask why)?

Formatting Floppy disks / Partitions with FAT32
Nik Tembe n...@liverfluke.demon.co.uk alt steinberg cubase As far as I can make out, the format on the system drive does not matter. Thats assuming you have enough RAM that Cubase does not need to access the swap file while playing/recording audio (64Meg should do it). My new system came with both (fujitsu 4.3 Gig

shell32 API Funktion SHFormat
ZIP disks that come from the factory are partitioned such that the entire disk is on partition 4, partition 4 is of type FAT16, and there's a FAT16 filesystem on the disk. If you want to convert that to ext2, all you really need to do is insert a ZIP disk into the drive and "mke2fs -m0 /dev/sda4" assuming your ZIP

Formatting in water to convert FAT32 to FAT16
Does anyone know of a brand of zip disk that cpmes pre-formatted w/FAT16 and/or a way to format the disks myself? Just because you have Win98 doesn't mean you can't create the correct disks. In fact, ZIP disks are typically only formatted using FAT16, no matter what operating system you use.

Formatting a brand new hard disk into fat16.
Jeff Richards JRich...@msn.com.au microsoft public win98 disks general FDISK sets the FAT type for a partition, not FORMAT. You need to use FDISK to delete the partition. Then re-start FDISK and answer No to the question about large hard disk support - the partitions that you then create will be FAT16.

Forcing a FAT16 format onto a 4MB FAT12 CompactFlash card
Edward W. Thompson thomed...@btopenworld.com microsoft public windowsxp photos If you format the card from your computer you run the risk of it formatting the card with FAT32 (over 64 Meg I believe). I don't know about all digital cameras but mine (Canon Poweshot S100) requires the formatting to be FAT16.

FAT16 format troubles
Bert Kinney b...@NSmvps.org microsoft public win98 setup Hi Bill How to Use Fdisk and Format to Partition/Repartition a Hard Disk Usage | +-------------------------------------------------+ D: | (User Defined) | 2047 | FAT16 | 100% | +-------------------------------------------------+ E: | (User Defined) | 2047

FAT16 format
Then run NT (or oher) install Beside the new partition is again FAT32 and not FAT16, so how can I format a FAT16 partition under WIN98? from the boot disk run fdisk /fprmt. Delete the new partition (not your good one!) Create a new one and set it FAT, not FAT32, /fprmt allows this. -- Lee MS-MVP (DTS)

Drive Format Fat16?
Bruce Staehle br...@senexet.com comp os ms-windows misc You can't put FAT16 on any partition greater than 2 GB. If you must use FAT16 partitions, use FDISK to create 2GB partitions first. -Bruce thomas wrote: Hello, I have tried booting with the 95 boot disc and formatting with a fat16 parttion using FDISK and then

FAT16 format
I did think about reformatting my old 2gig drive as FAT16, using that as the boot drive with DOS/Windows95 on the boot partition, then putting Win2000 on the next partition, but that rather defeats the point of getting a shiny new hard disk and I kinda like keeping my old disk as it is [ie operational] until the

XP's NTFS file Format does not read disk with FAT16
Y or N" Y=FAT32 N=FAT16 This option only affects the *creation* of partitions. It does not change any existing partitions. -- Gary Terhune Microsoft MVP-DTS "golteb" <bsi...@medsave-intl.com> wrote in message news:OFepdRqt$GA.264@cppssbbsa03... Is there a way to format a hard drive as FAT16 using the bootable disk

How to format FAT16 with one reserved sector?
Am I correct in thinking that my drive should be fat16? That's what I'm making it and it tells me that setup has detected "compression software" on my system and that I should uninstall it and start over. Yet, I have formatted the hd 3 times. Deleted and reset my primary Dos Partition a couple of times and still no

Formatting FAT and FAT32 using XP
The performance gain from formatting Fat16 to HPFS was amazing. My statistical packages ran two to three times as fast for disk intensive analyses in HPFS and HPFS supposed didn't fragment the drive as much as Fat. HPFS was an early, superior disk format, running under OS/2. Microsoft allowed NT to read HPFS drives

Formatting Harddrive
I think I noticed that the Mac disk utility for the MS DOS format is a FAT16 and the PC choice is FAT32 for the Flash drive format. You can choose either FAT16 or FAT32 when erasing a Flash drive on the Mac, at least under Tiger. They are displayed as "MS-DOS File System" (which is FAT32) or "MS-DOS File System

Corrupt memory card: cards or camera's fault?
I believe i need to perform the operations in the following order (starting with blank 18 GB unformatted/partitioned disk): 1) Format c:\ as fat16 using the DOS 6) Is there ANY 3rd party software that allows for the creation and formatting of fat16, fat32, NTFS, and Linux-ext2 partitions all from one single

Formatting CF card as FAT16
I started a while back with the following setup on my multiboot system: primary master hard drive ptn 1: FAT32 Win95 OSR2 ptn 2: FAT16 DOS6 ptn 3: extended logical 1: FAT16 The real problem was, every time I touched E:, even right-clicking to look at its properties, Windows asked whether I wanted to format it.

Get MaxBlast to let me format as FAT32 not FAT16
How large is the partition you are trying to format as FAT16? The upper limit for FAT16 is 2GB if you want DOS/Win9x access, or 4 GB for NT/Linux ONLY access. If the partition you are trying to format is larger than 2 GB, the Win9x format.com will not be able to format it as anything other than FAT32.

Partition and format 4GB microdrive to FAT16
Bob B. bbianch...@aol.commie alt windows98 Subject: Re: Formatting with FAT16 From: nottoo...@luvda.fuz As you didn't quote any of the post(s) you are replying to all I can add is a comment on the subject of the post. One does not "format" with any type of FAT. One runs FDISK. you may want to say "no" to the option