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I only want FAT16
What's the key to formatting these disks using DOS FORMAT command and the like so I can use it all? I'm pretty sure that with Fat16, I'd have to create 7 disk partitions, each 2 GB, but with Fat32, I could use just one partition. I get an error trying to format the disk with the Win98 installation program,

Formatting with OS/2 fdisk
Tom Loredo lor...@spacenet.tn.cornell.edu comp sys mac hardware storage Hi folks- How can I format a removable disk as a DOS FAT16 partition, using either MacOS 8.1 or 8.6? I have an Orb SCSI drive and purchased a PC disk format, which is supposed to come as a FAT16 partition. It mounts fine under 8.6,

Formatting CF
I know that in order to convert FAT32 to FAT16 without third party software, one needs to format their hard drive. However I have been unsuccessful in doing so. Whenever I boot with my Windows 98 startup disk and format, my drives stay FAT32. Whenever I format my drive after booting with my DOS startup disk,

how to convert fat16 to hpfs without formatting the drive?
I would just love to be able to format one of these drives as FAT16 because as it stands winNT setup cannot find a harddrive (ive been told because it cant recognize a FAT32 drive, so i figured id partition them and format one as FAT16 and install winNT, does that sound right?

How can I format FAT16 ??
Plato 2...@62.4 alt windows98 Mike wrote: 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? I dont think its defaulting to fat32, I think its just formatting how you (or the original person) set up your hard

Format FAT16
Under Windows 98 it looks just like another disk drive, and you can click on the disk icon - then format it like normal. The trouble is, I need to FORCE it to format an 8 MB compact flash card in FAT16 format. It *insists* on doing it FAT12 (and doesn't start using FAT16 until you get up to 32 MB.

Convert from FAT32 to FAT16?
James Liles JLil...@newsguy.com alt windows95 On Wed, 12 Aug 1998 11:38:59 -0700, "Adam S. Labay" <nerd...@mindless.com> wrote: -> I know that in order to convert FAT32 to FAT16 without third party ->software, one needs to format their hard drive. However I have been ->unsuccessful in doing so.

Formatting in water to convert FAT32 to FAT16
I understand it's a basis,but I still don't know how to format a hard drive so it's fat16. I formatted my hd as fat, and first the format was uknown, then as I checked with fdisk and it turned If you want to format to FAT16, enter fdisk on a bootable floppy & choose *N* when asked to enable large drive support.

Formatting with Fat32 or Fat16
Thank you The only free and reliable tools that I know of, that will work for sure are XCOPY for backing up your files and restoring them later if you wish, and FDISK and FORMAT for clearing the FAT32 partiton, and creating and formatting a fat16 one. Probably not what you wanted to hear, but even the much vaunted

Format FAT16
jeff tibben##IHATESPA...@magma.ca alt games quake2 Hey Ace The problem is that you CANNOT format FAT16 to partitions greater that 2.1GB. That is the whole limitation to the FAT16 system. Tha max cluster size is 64K so it goes like this. 128meg = 4K clusters 256 = 8K clusters 512 = 16K clusters 1024 = 32K clusters

OT-format new 10gig hard drive to FAT16
You don't "create" NTFS partitions, or FAT16 or FAT32 partitions. Fdisk cannot create an NTFS or FAT32 partition. All that fdisk can do is create the partitions, it cannot give them a file system. The file system of the partition (NTFS, FAT32, etc) is established when the partition is formatted, with DOS format.com

Formatting with FAT16
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. everybody can read that... but remember that you won't have long file names available. so if you want long file names

do I need to format this new external drive
Tim Slattery Slatter...@bls.gov microsoft public win98 fat32 "DRoss" <debo...@glasscity.net> wrote: I was formatting a new 80GB harddrive I accidentlly formatted FAT16 instead of FAT32. I try to start over to change it to FAT32 but when I get to that point it say FAT16 is already formatted.

Hard drive added to 486 DX2-66
Mikael Johansson mik...@softsense.se alt steinberg cubase Hi guys I like to add this: The reason that FAT16 could be faster than FAT32 for audio/video appz is that FAT 32 uses a smaller clustersize (4K) than FAT 16 (32K) . The best in my opinion is to format the audiodrive with FAT32 and 32K clustersize.

HD Formatting Woes
All the stuff I have read on VST web pages (duskin, vstlabs, etc) has said to format the audio drive as FAT32, but from what I read it seems like FAT16 might be better for large audio type files (by no means am I saying I'm correct). So what's the deal? Assuming I have a separate system hard drive and audio hard

formatting to FAT16 using calls to DeviceIoControl
I want to get my hands on a device that has the problem FAT16 format, so that I can make !ROFS read it. I had hoped that I could "just" reformat a 128 GB USB pen that I have, using XP, so I did that a few ^^ MB, of course. minutes ago, then transferred a number of small files onto it. I can see all the files,

Formatting...
I would like to format it in fat16 mode.Anybody there who can help? -- Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/ Have you asked your OS? W98SE, for example, click on Start, then click on Help, then type "format". If you need more help, then ask again about what you didn't understand. -- Cheers, Bob.

Formatting with FAT16
The PC format is plain old FAT16. FAT16 is the same no matter what operating system created it (to be picky, there is an alternative partition type that is used when extended Int13h functions are available, but that doesn't apply to ZIP disks, only hard drives.) If it is smaller than 512megs,such as a zip disk,it

got a new Hard drive and need your opinions
CF cards for all except the newest cameras must be formatted FAT16. Windows version 9x through XP format FAT32 by default. Some cameras cannot reformat FAT32 to A "corrupted" card that cannot be formatted in camera might be resurrected by formatting FAT16 in a reader. To format using Windows 95, 98, 98SE 1.

Formatting ZIP disks
COM alt os windows2000 Thanks, but I figured that out on formatting to Fat16 through fdisk like that. However, I am still getting the same error after that. (This system is nothing special, an old P133 system. Has ran NT4 before.) "sinnedah" <sinnedahNOS...@videotron.ca> wrote in message