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.
Last edited by Goseba on Fri Jun 22, 2012 1:05 pm; edited 1 time in total

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.

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.

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

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

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.
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