How do I format my USB flash to FAT 16 on windows?

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This question has been asked before. I think it deserves a simpler, more direct answer.

Edit: - Please post answers specific to Windows platform. No one wants to install Ubuntu just to format a flash drive.

Tom Yan · Answer 1 · 2016-03-14T04:39:17.040

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Use format in diskpart. For example:

diskpart
select volume E:
format fs=FAT

Note that the maximum volume size of FAT (as per diskpart allows, at least) is 4GB.

edited Mar 14 '16 at 04:39

answered Mar 14 '16 at 04:13

Tom Yan

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 13 '16 at 16:33

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I'm sure there lots of ways to do this. One simple method i used was to partition my 16GB flash drive, created a 1GB and formatted it as FAT16, all done within MiniTool Partition Wizard.

answered Mar 13 '16 at 16:33

Dawoodjee

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 13 '16 at 16:32

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This has been asked before. The answer is mkfs.vfat -F 16 <device>
It does not get much more simpler than that.

answered Mar 13 '16 at 16:32

Hennes

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 13 '16 at 17:39

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You could use a program such as this: http://www.disk-partition.com/free-partition-manager.html which in my opinion is the best partition manager (even the free version) it's easy and simple to use.

answered Mar 13 '16 at 17:39

TheAmazing31

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How do I format my USB flash to FAT 16 on windows?

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