buletov Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 Hi, i tried a lot of googling for this but not manged to succeed.Does anyone know ANY universal format tool?(I need it to format a 128MB USB stick with FAT12) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XtremeMaC Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 mine also works with fat12 but when u install the driver it also installs a small program for iti've creative muvo 128mb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Famer Posted December 16, 2004 Share Posted December 16, 2004 http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14928.htmlhttp://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hp...load/20306.htmlhope this helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 30, 2004 Share Posted December 30, 2004 Won't PartitionMagic do it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 Actually you need to FDISK the drive as FAT12 Before FORMATTING IT.http://fdisk.radified.com/http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/index.htmYou might want to try these tools:www.ranish.com/parthttp://www.zeleps.com/http://diskman.dyndns.org/http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/...rmat/format.lsmThis page is an interesting overview/comparison of FAT12 vs. FAT16http://www.pscience5.net/CompactFlash.htmjaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00buck Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 You can open a dos window and format it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 31, 2004 Share Posted December 31, 2004 jaclaz, are fdisk and ranish able to see the USB mem stick? @00buckI doubt that CMD windows can in anyway access the mem-stick, and even if they did, format.exe *CANNOT* do FAT12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 fdisk and ranish able to see the USB mem stick?Not directly of course.You must make a dos/win9x floppy or installation with USB support.Even then, not ALL computers (due to the poor implementation of the USB standard in some bios) can access it properly.Here are some possible resources:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10215http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/http://www.datoptic.com/Drivers/DAT.exeThe "Moto Hairu" Panasonic driver di1000dd.sys is reported to be working:http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/15210.htmlAnother "possible" approach would be to create an empty "RAW" virtual drive file formatted as FAT12, then DD it to the stick.Finally one could try to use the DOS 3.3 format utility, which had only FAT12 support, if I recall correctly.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 UPDATE:This "could" work:http://www.mager.org/mkdosfs/it is a WinNT port of linux command mkdosfs:NAME mkdosfs - create an MS-DOS file system under LinuxSYNOPSIS mkdosfs [ -A ][ -b sector-of-backup ] [ -c ] [ -l file- name ] [ -C ] [ -f number-of-FATs ] [ -F FAT-size ] [ -i volume-id ] [ -I ] [ -m message-file ] [ -n volume-name ] [ -r root-dir-entries ] [ -R number-of-reserved-sectors ] [ -s sectors-per-cluster ] [ -S logical-sector-size ] [ -v ] device [ block-count ]DESCRIPTION mkdosfs is used to create an MS-DOS file system under Linux on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX). block-count is the number of blocks on the device. If omitted, mkdosfs automatically determiness the file system size..... -F FAT-size Specifies the type of file allocation tables used (12, 16 or 32 bit). If nothing is specified, mkdosfs will automatically select between 12 and 16 bit, whatever fits better for the filesystem size. 32 bit FAT (FAT32 format) must (still) be selected explicitly if you want it.jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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