![]() Type the command as mentioned above and press 'Enter' to launch DiskPart. Search command prompt, right-click, and run it as an administrator. To clean the drives follow the following steps: Step 1 Open Command Prompt. If the thumb drive has been previously formatted with a modern file system, we’ll need to delete all partitions. The time taken by the complete process depends on the disk size. ![]() Search for Create and format hard disk partitions and click the top result to open the Disk Management app. Select the thumb drive by typing “select disk 6” (where 6 is the number identified in step 2) To format a USB flash drive with Disk Management, use these steps: Open Start.Type “list disk” and identify the thumb drive.Open a command prompt and enter diskpart (located in x:\Windows\System32).select disk X where X is replaced with the number of the disk used by. Because modern thumb drives far exceed the FAT16 file system limits, we have to partition the device so that it can be formatted with FAT16. list disk to determine which disk is your USB drive. ![]() Enter Diskpart!ĭiskpart has been around since Windows NT and thankfully it’s still a regularly maintained component of Windows. Modern Windows can still format using FAT16, but it’s no longer possible from the GUI. ![]() In order to mount the thumb drive to an ESXi host, it has to be formatted using the FAT16 file system. I needed to get the latest driver on my host and as the band Cinderella puts it, “you don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” Without networking, my best option was to load the drivers on a USB thumb drive.Ĭinderella likely saved these lyrics to a FAT16 volume You can open this by hitting Windows key R, entering cmd, then hitting Enter. That is, up until a week ago when I lost all networking on an ESXi host. Windows has a built-in disk partition management tool called Diskpart. I thought the days of 2GB volumes were long gone. FAT16 had a long run, from the old days of DOS up through to Windows 95.
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