How do I format my 8 GB USB drive to FAT/FAT16 in Windows 7?
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I already tried , diskpart, Disk Management and HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool. Do I really need to buy a smaller capacity drive? Can't a formatting tool ignore the area beyond 2 GB? My Asus netbook's BIOS update requires the USB to be formatted as FAT16, and I couldn't get the various Asus BIOS u…
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FORMAT /FS:FAT
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Disk Management and DISKPART don't let you delete partitions on removable media. But you can use DISKPART's command to nuke it and start over. Here is a series of commands that worked for me: This creates a 500MB FAT partition as the only one on the…
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