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Goseba · Post by **Goseba** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:10 pm

Does anyone know how in XP, or of any freeware, to format a drive to FAT16.

I need to format a zip drive like this so it gets recognized by a Yamaha A4000 sampler.

Thanks.

kmonkey · Post by **kmonkey** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:38 pm

Well almost every company has it's own tools. That said WesternDigital offer you free tool with which you can format your hdd as you like. Keep in mind that with FAT16 there are several limitations etc. so you can't format it in almost any size like NTFS for example. Also there is file size limit etc.

lfm · Post by **lfm** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:40 pm

Try EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition - it's free.

http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-upgrade.htm

Goseba · Post by **Goseba** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:43 pm

lfm wrote:Try EASEUS Partition Master Home Edition - it's free.

http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-upgrade.htm

I have the Professional edition but I didn't think it did FAT16. I'll check again.

Goseba · Post by **Goseba** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 8:44 pm

kmonkey wrote:Well almost every company has it's own tools. That said WesternDigital offer you free tool with which you can format your hdd as you like. Keep in mind that with FAT16 there are several limitations etc. so you can't format it in almost any size like NTFS for example. Also there is file size limit etc.

It's a 100mb Zip drive I need to format.

Goseba · Post by **Goseba** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:04 pm

I'm a nong, it was there in Windows all the time.

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 12:40 am

Yup.
Control panel->administrator tools->computer management->disk management
from there you can do the more advanced formatting options.
Remembering that XP restricts some things,
like only allowing FAT32 drives up to 137GB.
And if you select FAT (that's FAT16) it'll do FAT, up to 2GB, then it'll change it to FAT32 if it's larger than that.
m@

RESOLVED - How to format drive to FAT16 (WIN XP)