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Open a command prompt and enter diskpart (located in x:\Windows\System32).

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. 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

That is, up until a week ago when I lost all networking on an ESXi host. 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.