I created a new partition on my HD running XP. I formatted it in FAT32.
I want to reformat it back to FAT or FAT16. When I use the disk manager
to format, it goes through the motions and I end up back with FAT32.
I think I saw someone who had a software item that would let you format
regardless of the existing format. I can't remember where I saw that.
Anybody got any ideas?
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Jump to PostWhy do you want to go back to FAT16? There's really no good reason to do that. FAT 16 can only support a partition size of 2GB or under.
Do you mean converting from NTFS to FAT32, perhaps? This is not possible, at least according to Microsoft. The only …
Jump to PostThere are third party partitioning tools such as PartitionMagic, PartitionIT, etc that can convert partitions between the various formats. Perhaps one of these can do what you want.
To be able to convert to FAT16 the partition must be 2Gb or smaller (although Windows NT and presumably 2000 and …
Jump to PostTry using Partition Magic. It has the ability to change the FAT32 partiotion to a FAT partition. Remember to backup the data before attempting any such stunts
Jump to PostXP does'nt see FAT 16 it can only go with either Fat 32 or NTFS.
And the software you might be thinking of "Partition Magic"Windows XP may not be able to install on FAT16, but it can read it fine:
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