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Formatting a SD-card on the 49+: A Don't!
I was wondering if there is an utility to convert fat16 to hpfs without formatting the drive? I've looked up partition magic website, they don't support hpfs anymore :( Partition Magic up to v4 supported HPFS so if you can find a copy on eBay or some such you can convert fairly painlessly.

how to convert fat16 to hpfs without formatting the drive?
'N' makes them FAT16. Using FDISK causes you to lose all the data on affected partitions, the software "partition it" or "partition magic" can change between FAT16 and FAT32 without data loss. Plato <2...@62.4> wrote in message news:37B3BE0B.6C28@62.4... Mike wrote: Does anybody know how to force a format with FAT16

formatting FAT16 vs. FAT32
Then, use PM to shrink the partition to 2GB and convert it to FAT16. Then create an extended partition using the now-empty 2GB and assign it to a single volume, which DOS will assign to "Drive E:", and format it FAT16. Convert Drive D: to FAT16. Install NT on E:, converting it to NTFS in the process,

formatting FAT16 vs. FAT32
mike diack m...@kcbbs.gen.middleearth comp arch embedded I have a device which uses Compact Flash cards and can only comprehend FAT16 formatted cards. I also have a big pile of 8MB CF cards which are formatted FAT12 I DONT have a Linux box Can anyone suggest a utility for converting the FAT structure of my cards.

Formatting MassFS DOS disks to FAT16
Bob b...@comcast.net microsoft public windowsce embedded microsoft public pocketpc developer microsoft public windowsce platbuilder I'm stumped on how to format an SD card to FAT16. I can successfully format a card to FAT32 using the following code, but I need it to be formatted as FAT16 instead.

Win NT 4.0 / Win98 Dual Boot Problems!
It seems that Win98 comes with a FAT16 to FAT32 conversion application. My question concerns which is better for my audio drive. 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

Format From Fat32 To Fat16?
I wasnt responding to the OP but rather to another responder who didnt know why he couldnt format partitions larger than 32GB as FAT32. -Erik "Richard Urban" wrote: Are you implying that he should format as fat16? Formatting as fat16 you are locked in to 2 gig! Don't see the relevancy of your answer!

How can I format FAT16 ??
You can use "fdisk /fprmt" and choose FAT16/32 when creating parts. http://bharucha.com/tp701/fdiskSecrets.html "yubba" <d...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1092f4031s8ho3f@corp.supernews.com... WinXP won't give me an option to format it as FAT16 (Microsoft Documentation claims that option is not supported).

Formatting a Drive with FAT16 using WIN98
Good luck, David On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 10:22:57 UTC, wai...@aol.comnojunk (wileyK) wrote: Hello OS/2 users, I am a happy ( so far ) newbie OS/2 warp 3 user. Just installed the latest fixpak and the VESA driver. I was wondering if there is an utility to convert fat16 to hpfs without formatting the drive?

Unipod and Pen Drives
I have Win95 on 3.5 inch floppy and Win98 on CD but have not yet tried them. I also have various Linux CDs but have never fooled with them. Any suggestions for how to format for Fat16? I do not need to access more than 2GB temporarily. Eventually I will install Win98 for Fat32. But I'm not quite ready for that yet.

Help with multiboot OS manager?
Another option would be to just use a 32MB CF card instead of the 4MB card, this would force formatting to FAT16. Also, last time I checked, 32MB was the smallest you can find easily nowadays (not that you CAN'T get 4, 8, or 16MB; they just aren't as availible.) This is the option I would go with,

Formatting ZIP disk (Newbie)
S...@attglobal.net>], who wrote in article <SKfw30zmCGmZ-pn2-t37eIyr6xfNf@ a0ix181jy403c.ab.hsia.telus.net>: If, you installed warp3 on it's own partition, in a logical drive, the easiest, and safest, way to do the conversion, is to back up the partition, then format it as HPFS, then restore the partition.

fat32 - fat16
Well, that's quite a useful way of ensuring that you do NOT have to format or reinstall Win2000 if you wanted to dual boot say Win2000 with Win98, WinME or MS-DOS all of which CANNOT read (& hence cannot support) NTFS...provided you have the small PRIMARY FAT16 partition in place, you'll be able to dual boot at a

Formatting CF card as FAT16
In my stupidity I let Windows/XP format a 16 Mb CF-card, and it silently converted it from FAT16 to FAT12. Now, my camera will not accept it. (Windows/XP automatically chooses FAT12 for cards 32Mb and less and FAT16 for larger cards - up to 64 Mb, appearently, this braindamage can not be overridden).

formatting FAT16 vs. FAT32
I hoped I could format the FAT16 and NTFS partition, reboot and partition/format the rest of the drive as FAT32, install Win98, and then go back and install NT. That way NT will take care of the boot loader by itself. Only problem is, when I switch back to 98, IT now thinks I only have a 7900MB drive!

Formatting Zip Disk w/DOS-FAT16?
Jason Tribbeck newsmast...@tribbeck.com comp sys acorn hardware Hi, Just thought that I'd let anyone who wanted to format a DOS disk under MassFS know that you can do this by using the (now open source) PC Card's MkDOSDisc command: MkDOSDisc MassFS::MyData.$ 32 -initdos This will format the "MyData" disk to 32M

Upgrade Win95 to Win98 disc formatting question
COM> wrote in news:HLH59.275102$q53.8552167@twister.austin.rr.com: 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.) Its been a while but doesn't the NT4

Formatting ZIP disks
Harry O ho...@sk.sympatico.ca alt windows98 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

win 98 and formatting
Hi David, thanks for your advice, but writing a format utility is only an option if there is a way to prevent the usage of all other (windows supplied) format programs. Is this somehow possible? I've got an other idea how to fix the fat12 problem and would appreciate your advice: IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO is a

Can FAT16 be changed into FAT32 w/o formatting HDD?
Jon_Hildrum MVP_DTS Jon_Hild...@xemail.msn.com microsoft public win98 disks general If the partition was created using Fdisk with large disk support it is a FAT32 drive if not it is a FAT16 drive. You cannot change what was done when the drive was partitioned with format. Depending on the size of the disk and