Re: [Freedos-user] X-comments to: Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-24 Thread dos386
Perhaps you tried a partition too large, for the FAT16 exact maximum (from Microsoft documentation) is 65524 clusters, which means a little under 2 GB with 32 KB size clusters. I suggest you try four partitions. Some OS'es (EDR-DOS, Windaube NT) reportedly support FAT16 with cluster size of

[Freedos-user] X-comments to: Formatting 6 GB hard disk in FAT16

2010-05-18 Thread jasse...@itelefonica.com.br
Boa noite, Marcos It has been said in this list: (Mateusz) Simple: FAT16 doesn't support partitions bigger than 2GiB. So, you have to choose: - either you are sticking to FAT32 - or you use only 2GiB partitions (for eg. 2 or 3 partitions on the drive, with each one having 2GiB max.)