How do I format a floppy FAT32, not FAT?

[oldspice 0]

I have a digital camera that uses floppy disks. I can read the pictures off the disk but when i go to reformat the floppy, the only option is FAT, and my camera wants a fresh FAT32 floppy every time.Any software out there to overcome this problem.Partition magic does not do floppies. Am I lost or does this not make sense.When I format on win98 computer, no problem.Format FAT on win2k and no go in camera.Thanks!

[oldspice 0]

update, i am running NTFS on my hard disk, if this helps.

[CUViper 0]

I don't think there is such a thing as FAT32 on floppies...

[Down8 0]

I'd be inclined to agree with CUViper, but the W2K Help File doesn't say that specifically, only that NTFs can't be used on floppies. I didn't find anything else on this though.

 

Sorry,

-bZj

[EddiE314 0]

i believe floppyies are FAT12

[polarcat 0]

well, I dont' know about FAT32 floppies, but

there's a way to make an NTFS floppy!!!

 

read it here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsfloppy.shtml

[oldspice 0]

UPDATE....I tried reformatting a disk this morning in my win2k machine and the digital camera was able to read it. I guess it must be due to poor media quality or the camera is very sensitive or something.It was the same disk i had tried to format the other day. I guess when you use the same disk over and over the formatting may become unreliable. Thanks everyone for replying!

[DeadCats 0]

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by oldspice:
UPDATE...I guess when you use the same disk over and over the formatting may become unreliable...</font>

Heheheh...Yeah, you can corrupt some floppies just by looking at 'em.

I wish they'd do away with 1.44MB 3.5" floppy discs completely. They've outlived their purpose now. I notice the new Sony Mavica uses a mini-CDRW...

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[Down8 0]

I saw something recently - on Slashdto, I think - that had someone announcing a video camera that records straight to a mini DVD. Now, that's pretty sweet.

 

-bZj

[DosFreak 2]

I've noticed sometimes that formatting a DOS disk in NT will make it unbootable. I simply make a bootable DOS disk in DOS/9x and then image it. Then in NT I just click on the image and it formats/writes to the floppy itself.