15MB FAT32 Partitions

[Nandini]

Hello Listers,
I created a 15MB Partition which I tried formatting as FAT32 but somehow this doesn't seem to work under Win2k. Any idea why? The partition appears to be full ( i.e. 0 free Bytes ). Since there is no lower limit imposed on the size of a FAT32 partition I'd like to know why this fails.

Hope someone out there knows the answer!
Nandini

[Paul Komski]

Welcome Nandini. More info please. How many partitions and how (eg using which software) were they created/formatted.

Is this for a new install of 2K etc?

[iisbob]

My question is why a 15 MegaByte partition?!



:confused:

[Nandini]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply !
I had 3 partitions of ~15MB each - all primary one FAT12,FAT16 and one FAT32. I had this problem only with the FAT32 partition. I created them under Linux and formatted the FAT12,16 under Linux. I tried formatting the FAT32 partition under Win2K but this failed.

The size of the partition is small since I had meant it to be for test purposes not for storage.
- Nandini

[rahulkothari]

hey nandini, can i call you nandu ? ;) ... just kidding ...

have a look at this thread at google groups. (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=6fpq3s%2459q%40dfw-ixnews11.ix.netcom.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26q%3D%2522lower%2Blimit%2B%2Bfor%2BFAT32%2522%2 6sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg)