Fat12, Fat16, Fat32

[Nix]

I was re-partitioning my HD on the weekend.

I decided to create a 5Mb partition to dedicate to XOSL.

When I went to install it and told it the DOS drive letter it said it couldn't find a valid FAT16 drive.

I used GDISK that comes with Norton Ghost to do:

GDISK 1 /Status and the information that came back said that the partition I had created was 8Mb and was Fat12.

All other partitions were Fat32.

I tried 256Mb and that was Fat16, so I tried 128Mb and it was also Fat16.

As it was about 3am I decided to leav it at that.

What is the smallest partition size to be Fat16 ?

I didn't even know there was a Fat12.

[DuaneB]

FAT16 is used for hard disk volumes ranging in size from 16 MB to 2,048 MB.


Here's where I got the information:

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partSizes-c.html

[Train]

FAT Sizes: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32

FAT Sizes: FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32

M$ FAT16 and FAT12 link

Why not go to www.bootdisk.com and get a DOS 6.22 disk and fromat that partition using it.