how do you partition a USB external hard drive in FAT16 ??

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how do you partition a USB hard drive in FAT16?? is there any free
utilities that do it without wiping out the data ? i want to use a
partition for ubuntu
 
midget said:
how do you partition a USB hard drive in FAT16?? is there any free
utilities that do it without wiping out the data ? i want to use a
partition for ubuntu
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How do you expect to partition without wiping out the existing data?
 
Today, midget made these interesting comments ...
how do you partition a USB hard drive in FAT16?? is there any
free utilities that do it without wiping out the data ? i want
to use a partition for ubuntu
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why FAT16 and not FAT32? and, you cannot partition a drive at all
without destroying the data. you can upgrade from FAT to NTFS but
it is often problematical
 
HEMI-Powered said:
Today, midget made these interesting comments ...

why FAT16 and not FAT32? and, you cannot partition a drive at all
without destroying the data. you can upgrade from FAT to NTFS but
it is often problematical

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HP, aka Jerry

Member, Chrysler Employee Motorsport Association (CEMA)
http://www.cemaclub.org/default.html
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Third party utilities such as PartitionMagic do allow you to partition a
drive without destroying data. It's a good guess that the USB drive came
formatted as FAT32 out-of-the-box and I don't know if it can be formatted
from FAT32 to FAT16 with PartitionMagic or the like. I haven't used one of
those utilities in a few years. BTW, I've been Hemi-powered for a little
over two years now. What are you driving that's Hemi-powered?
 
Today, Peter A. Stavrakoglou made these interesting comments ...
Third party utilities such as PartitionMagic do allow you to
partition a drive without destroying data. It's a good guess
that the USB drive came formatted as FAT32 out-of-the-box and
I don't know if it can be formatted from FAT32 to FAT16 with
PartitionMagic or the like. I haven't used one of those
utilities in a few years. BTW, I've been Hemi-powered for a
little over two years now. What are you driving that's
Hemi-powered?
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2006 Dodge Charger 5.7L R/T, Inferno Red.
 
Today, Peter A. Stavrakoglou made these interesting comments ...
Mine is a 2005 Chrysler 300C and I can't wait for the
Challenger to show up.
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You've got a tad over two years to wait - it launches about this
time in 2008, will start to hit dealers by late September as a 2009
M/Y.
 
Thanks for this http://nedwolf.com link: in all categories, the
programs are IMO carefully and judiciously selected.

BTW it seems many USB keys are able to handle FAT but not NTFS.
Maybe some only handle FAT16, and can't FAT32. The reason may be
the price of license for NTFS or FAT32.

Paris, Wed 30 Aug 2006 09:39:10 +0200


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There are several utilities available e.g.
http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Utilities-Useful.htm
A Google search will reveal more, even 30 day trial stuff will
work :-)


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How do you expect to partition without wiping out the existing
data?

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http://www.bootdisk.com/


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how do you partition a USB hard drive in FAT16?? is there any
free utilities that do it without wiping out the data ? i want
to use a partition for ubuntu
 
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