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| 67788 | 2002-08-03 11:54:00 | If you really want fat32, the easiest way to guarantee you get it is to obtain a copy of Fdisk.exe and format.com from a win98 computer, and put them on a boot disk. Run Fdisk, and make sure you enable large disk support if asked. Create a partition on your drive, and them format it after a restart. This will now be fat32, and will work regardless of HDD size (I just did this on an 80Gb drive, that even windows will not format to fat32) If you need better instructions to these steps, make another post here... Craig. |
Craig Bellhouse (493) | ||
| 67789 | 2002-08-03 12:19:00 | I will give it a go thanx | Will (553) | ||
| 67790 | 2002-08-04 00:19:00 | If the partition you are creating is over 2GB it will be FAT32 automagically. | BIFF (1) | ||
| 67791 | 2002-08-04 08:42:00 | No matter what everyone else in here says... XP will not run on FAT16, therefore when it formats to [/i]FAT[/i] you can safely assume that it is FAT32. I believe Win95 was the last Windows OS to truly use FAT16 - all since then have recommended FAT32 or NTFS. And because FAT16 is basically defunct now, you can also safely assume that if WinXP tells you your drive is FAT formatted, it is FAT32 not FAT16 (yet it is still correct in using just "FAT" as that is still what it is). Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 67792 | 2002-08-04 08:46:00 | Mike, from Microsoft TechNet: The format command in Windows XP Professional displays a warning and asks for a confirmation before formatting a volume that has 64-KB clusters using FAT16. Perhaps Microsoft are in error?? I dont intend to try it to find out. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 67793 | 2002-08-04 08:52:00 | > Mike, from Microsoft TechNet: > > The format command in Windows XP Professional > displays a warning and asks for a confirmation before > formatting a volume that has 64-KB clusters using > FAT16. > > Perhaps Microsoft are in error?? I dont intend to try > it to find out. That'd probably be because it will format over the FAT16 with FAT32 so the computer that likely created the FAT16 partition probably won't be able to read it again (think Win95 or similar). Nothing to do with what XP installs as. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 67794 | 2002-08-04 09:16:00 | Know what you are saying, but thats not the impression I get from the site. Here is the whole para. For Microsoft® Windows® NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP Professional, the cluster size of FAT16 volumes from 2 GB through 4 GB is 64 KB, which can create compatibility issues with some applications. For example, setup programs do not compute free space properly on a volume with 64-KB clusters and cannot run because of a perceived lack of free space. For this reason, you must use either NTFS or FAT32 to format volumes larger than 2 GB. The format command in Windows XP Professional displays a warning and asks for a confirmation before formatting a volume that has 64-KB clusters using FAT16. I take this as suggesting, that for small partitions you do get a choice but are warned... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 67795 | 2002-08-04 09:27:00 | I just repartitioned and reinstalled this time with a 3 GB primary partition and now it tells me the partition is Fat32 .... where with a 2GB partition it only stated a Fat ........ soooo Im thinking it still must have been Fat because of the change to Fat32 with a larger partition. The only thing now is when I go to format the remaining 37GB thru Disk management in Windows the only option it allows is NTFS !!! | Will (553) | ||
| 67796 | 2002-08-04 09:30:00 | Will, if my postings above are correct (in which case FAT could be FAT16) then beware, as the 64kB blocks could cause problems for other things running on them. I assume you went out of your way to create FAT16 for a purpose, hope it works. | godfather (25) | ||
| 67797 | 2002-08-04 09:33:00 | Like I said in an earlier post, make your partitions with Fdisk, and the format thru DOS. This WILL allow any size partition to be fat32, and will size the allocations to whatever is needed to address the space. I did this to an 80Gb drive, and formatted it to fat32, which winXP successfully installed onto, with no worries. The only drawback is that it takes a long time, but whats a few hours for a successful solution... Craig. |
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