Going BACK to Fat16 from Fat32

[jonathankeeping]

Hi Power-B,
Partion Magic is an excellent program that will convert a drive from FAT-32 to FAT-16 on the fly, and keep all your existing data. You can download a demo version here ( http://www.powerquest.com/freestuff/index.html ).

I'm not too sure, but I think you can use the Win95 fdisk to create a FAT-16 partition so long as your drive is under 2GB.

-Jonny-

[This message has been edited by jonathankeeping (edited 02-26-2000).]

[Dave_H]

Fdisk will work, but you will loose everything on the drive. Choose NO for the question "enable large drive support?". The drive can be bigger than 2gb, but the partitions cannot. So if you have a 10gb drive, you will need to create 5 partitions on it.
Dave

[Power-B]

Is there a way to re-format a hard drive
BACK to Fat16 from Fat32?

[Crest]

FAT16 won't support drives bigger than 8gb, because every partition can't be bigger than 2gb and there can be no more than 4 partitions on a disk.
But Partition Magic is a good tool.

[OuTpaTienT]

You can have more than 4 partitions. I used to have a single 1.7gb HD partitioned as drives C:\, D:\, E:\, F:\, G:\, H:\, & I:\. But I finally gave up on trying to save every last byte by worrying about sector sizes.

(hehe, and right now, that same 1.7gb HD is just C:\, and the 6.8gb only has a couple partitions on it.)