Formatting a FAT Partition (Windows Embedded CE 6.0)

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1/6/2010

After you choose which file system to use, file allocation table (FAT), exFAT, or TexFAT, for a volume, you can implement the FAT file system. For more information about the file systems, see FAT File System, Extended FAT File System, and Transaction-Safe Extended FAT File System.

This procedure assumes you have an OS design that includes Storage Manager and a FAT file system.

To use FAT on a volume

  1. In the Windows Embedded CE Control Panel, select Storage Manager.

  2. In the FAT Utility dialog box, select the desired partition to format, or create a partition if one is not available.

  3. On the Properties menu, select Format, and do one of the following:

    • To format a partition for FAT, set the FormatFATVersion registry setting.You can set the FAT version to 12, 16, or 32.
    • To format a partition for TexFAT, set the FormatTfat registry setting to 1.If this value is set to 1, any unformatted volume is automatically formatted as a TexFAT volume.A FAT volume must have two file allocation volumes to be converted to TexFAT. Operations in directories that have already been created using FAT may not be transaction-safe.
    • To format a partition for exFAT, set the FormatExfat registry setting to 1.- or - Call FormatPartition.
      If this value is set to 1, any unformatted volume is automatically formatted as an exFAT volume.

See Also

Concepts

FAT File System
FAT File System Registry Settings
Extended FAT File System

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