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DOS疑难解答 & 问题讨论（解答室） » Is there any way under DOS to convert a FAT12 flash disk to FAT16?

Floor2　笑傲江湖	Posted 2003-09-12 00:00
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How large is it? What is the purpose? Is it DOC?

Floor3　Dark-Destroy	Posted 2003-09-12 00:00
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There are still ones using FAT12 now??

Floor4　LanE	Posted 2003-09-12 00:00
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Floppy disks are generally in FAT12 format.

Floor5　笨笨熊	Posted 2003-09-15 00:00
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The flash disk capacity is 16M. I want to convert it from FAT12 to FAT16 format, and then maybe there will be a way to make it into a boot disk. I’ve tried many times; with its current FAT12 format, no matter what I do, I just can’t make it into a boot disk.

Floor7　lemonhall	Posted 2003-10-02 00:00
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Sheesh, aren’t USB flash drives directly FAT to begin with? I’m not clear on whether they’re divided into FAT16 and FAT12. I suggest not doing this kind of thing under DOS. If you want to do it, I can offer a direction (I absolutely don’t know whether this method works, and I don’t know whether it might damage the drive) Use partitioning software, DISKMAN, MAGIC PATION, etc. to forcibly write the USB flash drive as FAT16, and see whether it works.

Floor8　LanE	Posted 2003-10-02 00:00
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I also want to partition my USB flash drive, but I think the principle of a USB flash drive is different from that of a hard disk after all, so I don’t know whether the partitioning operation has anything to do with those differences………… Still, I support someone else trying it first; if somebody tries it, then I’ll know too ^_^ (Brothers, don’t hit me—gentlemen use words, not fists.)