Thread: How do you get this to work?

Ah, ok so the 64Gb flash drive should be fine. I seem to remember hearing people complain about FAT32 being limited to 4Gb or something. Then again, maybe it was 32Gb... idk. I guess they were wrong.

Walmart sell 2 gb duracell usb key for less than $ 5... so one 2 gb in fat 32 for the .exe and do what ever you want with the 64 GB

Quote: Originally Posted by digitaldd actually FAt32 has a file size limit of 4GB. no file can be larger than 4Gb on FAT filesystem but the above is also correct. Right. I forgot about that.

When buying an external drive, I received a program capable of formatting a 500g drive with fat32, without either the partition limitation or the file limitation, I tested the drive on a PVR after formatting it, the PVR was only compatible with Fat32 file system and the drive works perfectly, so there are versions ( unofficial ) of fat32 out there, without partition or file limitations.

you can resolve many if your issues with using a pre-made ms-dos start-up disk. i personally like the floppy images for windows 98se. the only potential hickup is getting a usb formatted size of 1.44MB, but software like partition magic can fix that.

Quote: Originally Posted by justinsn95 Ok I will see if I can try that. But once you succeed in making a bootable USB flash drive, the DOS system files are not viewable, are they? Like if you go ahead and stick the drive in a port once you are already booted into windows, are you going to be able to open the flash drive and see the windows 98 DOS system files? Or will it just be an empty root directory? (yet the files are still there) No the...

Have you tried the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool V2.1.8 Not sure if it works in Vista or 7 though. This might be a newer version, but it does not have Vista or 7 listed: http://en.kioskea.net/telecharger/te...ge-format-tool

actually FAt32 has a file size limit of 4GB. no file can be larger than 4Gb on FAT filesystem but the above is also correct.

You might be able to get the drive to full capacity by using the software and instructions in the article about recovering USB drives posted on this thread . Some drives are manufactured without having their format fully tested, but this should restore it if it can be.