Formatting a 16 GB SDHC card with Win 10

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dahermit

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How do I format a SDHC card to Fat16 using Windows 10? Fat16 is the requirement for my new trailcam.

The SDHC cards were used in an older (broken and gone), trailcam and were formatted to Fat32.

When I right-click on one of the drive/cards it tells me I do not have rights. When I insert the other, right-click on it, and then click on format, the menu only shows: Fat32, FAT, and NFTS...no Fat16.
 
Are you not able to use it when selecting FAT?

Also keep in mind that the max partition size for FAT16 is 4 GB, if I recall correctly.
 
My new trailcam instruction book states that if I use a new card, the camera will automatically format it to Fat16. However, if the cards have ever been used in another device, as mine have , they/it must be formatted with a computer to Fat16 before being used. There in is the problem. As I posted, my Windows 10 computer is only showing NTFS, Fat32 and exFat as the options for formatting. Can anyone help?
 
beers said:
Also keep in mind that the max partition size for FAT16 is 4 GB, if I recall correctly.
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Actually it's only 2GB partitions.

OP are you sure that's what you wanna do? You'll only be able to use 2GB out of the 16GB the card has to offer.

If you so desire, you can use diskpart to do it.

Click Start>CMD

Type diskpart

list disk (your disks will be listed. Look for the one you want to work with)

Select disk * (Replace * with the disk number you want to work with)

clean

create partition primary size=2048

format quick fs=fat
 
Tried it and it seemed to work. I will know for sure (although the process indicated no error), in a few days...the trialcam is now out in the woods, keeping vigil on a salt block. Thank you for the solution.
 
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