How do you do a FAT16 format ?

[Jooooles]

I want to do a external drive FAT16 format ( well its a nds cart ) but when i right click on the drive i only get a format 32 option are just format i need to do a fat16 format

Can one of you clever people help me out please

 

[The Dentist]

how big is the drive. if its larger than 2gb it wont format fat16

 

[davidh]

I want to do a external drive FAT16 format ( well its a nds cart ) but when i right click on the drive i only get a format 32 option are just format i need to do a fat16 format

Can one of you clever people help me out please

why do u want fat 16

i think the last time that was used was windows 3.11 lol

 

[Jooooles]

why do u want fat 16

i think the last time that was used was windows 3.11 lol

its for a g6 lite nds cart the instructions say u must use fat 16 to format before you use the utility

 

[jaffa]

why do u want fat 16

i think the last time that was used was windows 3.11 lol

Was thinking exactly the same.

If needed.

go to cmd prompt. (start/run and type cmd and enter) then type.

format (drive letter) : /FS:FAT16

 

[Jooooles]

Was thinking exactly the same.

If needed.

go to cmd prompt. (start/run and type cmd and enter) then type.

format (drive letter) : /FS:FAT16

thanks jaffa your a star m8

 

[Jooooles]

thanks jaffa your a star m8

jaffa im in cmd this is what ive typed

format E :/FS:FAT16
im getting a invalid parameter error

 

[jaffa]

jaffa im in cmd this is what ive typed

format E :/FS:FAT16
im getting a invalid parameter error

I know this looks exactly the same but it isn't, your semi colon is in wrong place.

here is what you have and what it should be...yours top.

format E :/FS:FAT16
format E: /FS:FAT16

Edit: btw...I see from my 1st post it may have been misleading because I put it in bold...soz m8

 

[Jooooles]

I know this looks exactly the same but it isn't, your semi colon is in wrong place.

here is what you have and what it should be...yours top.

format E :/FS:FAT16
format E: /FS:FAT16

Edit: btw...I see from my 1st post it may have been misleading because I put it in bold...soz m8

im now getting this error the file system is FAT
the new file system is FAT16
format is not available for FAT16 drives

 

[Jooooles]

this is in the maintance files for the g6 im sure i have to format it with fat 16 ? can anyone confirm this

 

[davidh]

u want to get hold of a copy of window 95 that has dos 3x which uses fat16

xp dos only uses fat32

fat = file allocation table and 16 is 16 bit
32 is 32 bit

 

[jaffa]

Dont know about G6 but is the mem card bigger than 2gb...if so then Fat16 wont work. You may be able to do it if 2gb or smaller by rebooting and going to safe start F8 and start at dos window then fomat to Fat16. XP struggles with older system allocations.

 

[Jooooles]

just been reading some posts on a nds site people have just formatted these with FAT not FAT32 and say there was no problem so i think ill just give that a shot fingers crossed

 

[hatab]

i suspect the easiest way if trying to format from win xp didnt work is to get a boot floppy and format from that u can get older versions from

www.bootdisk.com

 

[Jooooles]

i suspect the easiest way if trying to format from win xp didnt work is to get a boot floppy and format from that u can get older versions from

www.bootdisk.com

thanks for the info ill try using just the FAT option if that doesnt work ill have to make a boot floppy

 

[davidh]

here is a copy of windows 3.11
on floppys

also here is a dos 3x boot disk msd330bd

 

[MH]

just been reading some posts on a nds site people have just formatted these with FAT not FAT32 and say there was no problem so i think ill just give that a shot fingers crossed

FAT is FAT16, or have I mis read your post?

 

[Jooooles]

FAT is FAT16, or have I mis read your post?

yer thats what i read i formatted with FAT no FAT32 worked ok still having trouble with my G6 lite though never mind have a r4 in the post

 

[newbie1908]

u will have to use an external source such as an usb flash drive because anything over 2G wont format

 

[Jooooles]

normal fat worked fine and i sorted the problem out thanks for all your help at least i found out about some new stuff