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FAT16/32 and (re)formatting...
RA van Meijer r...@multiweb.nl microsoft public nl windows nt Wie kan mij vertellen hoe ik een lege PC kan formateren als FAT16 om NT 4.0 te installeren? Met dank. Ron.

Format as FAT16?
After formatting to FAT16 it'll be 1.38MB. Since you've already tried formatting the hard drive, I"ll assume you're not trying to preserve/recover any data from it? Boot to a windows startup floppy, FDISK /MBR the hard drive at the prompt. Then run FDISK again and see what the partitions look like, and if all space

formatting hard drive for a clean installation
What the DOS FAT16 format gives that you're going to get so basically - with those tiny little calculator files you'll have almost the same capasity in a 8MB and a 128MB card. There are only 65518 possible cluster on a card (or HD) in FAT16 Agreed, partially. You can't very well have more files than clusters,

Need help formating HD.
Diagnostics.Process.Start' "format.com" starten und als Format FAT16 angeben. Informationen zu den Parametern von "format.com" findest Du, indem Du in der Windows-Eingabeaufforderung "format /?" eingibst. -- MS Herfried K. Wagner MVP <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/> VB <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

Formatting a brand new hard disk into fat16.
I am trying to use the MaxBlast software to partition and format my Maxtor 90720D5 7.2 GB hard drive and then I plan to install Win 98 SE. The instructions say that it will ask me if I am installing Windows NT and then if I say NO, it will ask for a system disk and then will let me decide to format FAT16 or FAT32.

OT-format new 10gig hard drive to FAT16
Your camera will not format the disk now. Windows 98 is the oldest Windows that supports USB. (I guess your reader like many is USB?) But you need Windows 3.1 to format at FAT16. And plain old FAT is it not a DOS or even older version of Windows format? No. All versions of Windows trough XP support FAT16 as an

Formatting with Fat32 or Fat16
My problems: The new created partition is now named F: and not C:, how can I make my computer understand that he has to boot from the new partition ? Beside the new partition is again FAT32 and not FAT16, so how can I format a FAT16 partition under WIN98? 3. Other possibilitys?? Thanks, Robert.

Flash Cards Formatting
8 GB Maxtor Harddrive set up as the Primary IDE Master FDISK the drive using LBA into two partitions. C: 2047 MB D: Rest of Drive When I format the C: Partition it uses FAT32 and I cannot locate an option to force it to use FAT16. This will be a dual-boot system with NT4.0 and the boot partition must be FAT16.

Format FAT16
If it doesn't, your formatting is FAT16. FAT16 could not recognize partitions over about 2 GB. Its formatting is very inefficient, compared to FAT32. EZ Drive can only work with what's there and FAT16 forces it to sub-divide your hard drive into two gig partitions. Not good. If you are using the older (FAT16)

Windows 95 and FAT16
Scott Vetter svet...@ameritech.net alt os linux suse wkttp...@wedqdu.com.rc wrote: OK, let's try this... I would like to format it so that is is r/w to Linux as well as r/w to any other system be it OS/2, Windows, etc. Didn't mean to start a war... Geese.. Try formatting it FAT16. mkdosfs will do it. Thanks!

Flash Drives between Macs and PC's best format question
You don't have to format your new drive as FAT32, just because you install "the 'B' version of Win95" -- you can still format as FAT16. Unless they've changed recently, GW2K is reportedly still formatting FAT16 on new systems. And even if you do format your new drive as FAT32, you can still keep your old drive

how to convert fat16 to hpfs without formatting the drive?
He was asking about FAT16 to allow compatibility with a car stereo. I imagine that means the car stereo takes SD cards, but only reads FAT16? First I'm not sure FAT16 supports 8G...does it? Second, I would guess that a stereo that only supports FAT16, wouldn't support SDHC. It's fairly new. newer than FAT32,

How To Format 8GB SDHC Card To FAT16 File System
Lee Chapelle l...@NSmvps.org microsoft public win98 disks general From http://www.jacobsen.sdn.dk/fdisk/ fdisk/FPRMT Prompt for FAT32/FAT16 in interactive mode -- Lee MS MVP (DTS) Hi, I am using a Win98 DOS Boot Disk to format my c:\ drive, which I will also use for NT 4.0, and, as such, no support for FAT32.

Fat 16 Formatting
Yes = Fat32, No = Fat16. What you CAN do during the format phase is to override the cluster sizes - but since you're setting a new primary partition to install from scratch - don't mess with it. On a separate topic - I'd recommend using more than one partition anyway. If nothing else because even Fat32 will have to

Unreadable compact flash card
I believe i need to install in the following order: c:\ fat16 formatting f:\windows (win98/ME) e:\winnt (nt4 - at beginning of drive) g:\Winnt (win2k - last M$ OS installed) then install linux last, since it won't try to format all my windows partitions Now then, I have a few basic questions: I have the 3 NT4 boot

formatting hard drive
Limitations: FAT16 can only create individual partitions up to a max of 2GB FAT32 can create partitions into the Terabytes. FAT16 can be seen by DOS and all versions of Windows from Windows 3.1 FAT32 can only be seen by versions of Windows from Windows 95 build 950B (OSR2) and the subsequent versions of DOS that

help: I want to format in FAT16!
In this group, I could get an information to overwrite OSR2 at the win95 initial version system without formatting HDD. But I don't know whether FAT16 system is changed into FAT32 system just by overwriting OSR2 without formatting HDD. No it's not changed. You need to convert it. There are utils available to do so

Formatting with FAT16
Bud b...@bud.localhost rec photo digital Gisle Hannemyr wrote: Because the camera can't format. (This is an old camera.) If you know how to format at 16 Mb card to use FAT16 on Win/XP, please respond. Since it is an old camera, it's probably formated as 8 bit, msdos. Take it to a camera store? --

Formatting with FAT16
XP supports all flavors of FAT; fat12, fat16 and fat32 concurrently with NTFS, and several flavors of optical media formats. Look elsewhere for your problem such as device The file format is FAT16. XP indicates that the zip disk is not formatted. What can I do to get XP to recognize the zips FAT16 file format.

How to format FAT32 in Windows XP?
Mike yh...@worldnet.att.net alt windows98 Does anybody know how to force a format with FAT16 in Windows 98 (Don't ask why)? I tried using the regular format command and it always defaults to FAT32? Thanks for the help, Mike.