Windows 10: Hey, does anyone know some easy way to format drive to fat16 (0x06) instead of fat16 (lba)...

Discus and support Hey, does anyone know some easy way to format drive to fat16 (0x06) instead of fat16 (lba)... in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; submitted by /u/Eldojosh [link] [comments] https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/eo13da/hey_does_anyone_know_some_easy_way_to_format/ Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/Eldojosh, Jan 13, 2020.

  1. /U/ELDOJOSH
    /u/Eldojosh Win User

    Hey, does anyone know some easy way to format drive to fat16 (0x06) instead of fat16 (lba)...

    /u/Eldojosh, Jan 13, 2020
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  2. AIRMECH
    AirMech Win User

    Win 10, Format to FAT16 not FAT16 (LBA)


    Hi

    The card is on 64 MB.

    As your link to "File Allocation Table - Wikipedia" are there different types of the: FAT16 the one we need is 0x06
     
    AirMech, Jan 13, 2020
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  3. AIRMECH
    AirMech Win User
    Win 10, Format to FAT16 not FAT16 (LBA)


    Hi Spunk

    Thank you, but it was not the solution. The prefix there works is 0x06 FAT16 where 0x0E FAT16 (LBA) don't.

    We have tested with a old win 8 and it works. But we don't like the idea to replace all the tables, some of them are in Africa....
     
    AirMech, Jan 13, 2020
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  4. BERTON
    Berton Win User

    Hey, does anyone know some easy way to format drive to fat16 (0x06) instead of fat16 (lba)...

    Win 10, Format to FAT16 not FAT16 (LBA)


    It just dawned on me that our voting machines use the PCMCIA card. I haven't been able to get in touch with the IT person for the county that maintains them so don't have any particulars as to the OS or the card's formatting. How large are the cards? FAT/FAT16 has limits.
    Maybe some help:
    Format PCMCIA card with FAT16 format for MICB upgrade - Nortel: CS1000 (Meridian) systems - Tek-Tips
    software to format pcmcia as fat16 at DuckDuckGo
    Just for kicks I plugged in a 256MB Thumb drive and found that File Explorer chose FAT for formatting it, other options were FAT32, NTFS and exFAT. FAT16 is pretty much limited to 2GB partition size. The use of LBA/Logical Block Addressing was generally by the BIOS in setting up HDDs.
    File Allocation Table - Wikipedia
    Logical block addressing - Wikipedia

    EDIT: Just found a 2GB Thumb drive in my parts box and checked, Win10 File Explorer shows it will indeed format 2GB as FAT [FAT16]. Bottom line: looks like using a Linux machine would work if wanting FAT16 over 2GB. I just checked the drive on my Linux Mint 17 and it has GPARTED installed [by default] and it can format 2GB as FAT16 so the main thing is how large the capacity of the PCMCIA card is.
     
    Berton, Jan 13, 2020
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