RECOVER FIXED/FLOPPY DISK v2.2 
How to create a FAT16 (16-bit FAT) Disk Partition
On WINDOWS 98 Systems:
When you create a partition using FDISK.EXE, you must first disable "large disk support" at the starting screen of FDISK.EXE.
Select "1. Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive"
by hitting 1 and ENTER.
Select "3. Create DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS Partition"
by hitting 3 and ENTER.
Then create a new logical drive by defining a partition size you like.
When creating a new logical drive on the extended partition, FDISK automatically allocates the maximum partition size of 2 GB (2047 MB). You can change this to a partition size you like. What you get now is a FAT16 partition with 64 sectors per cluster when partition size is closer to 2 GB.
After the partition is created, you must reboot your system and format the new partition so as to make it useable. As the partition itself was created for a FAT16 file system, when the partition is formatted the format utility automatically creates a FAT16 file system.
On DOS, WINDOWS 3.xx, and WINDOWS 95 Systems:
On DOS, WINDOWS 3.xx, and WINDOWS 95 Systems any partition you create is always a FAT16 (16-bit FAT) partition unless the disk space you reserve for the partition is too low where you get a FAT12 (12-bit FAT) partition.
Floppies:
Floppies always have FAT12 (12-bit FAT) File System whether yours is a DOS or WINDOWS 95/98 computer.
Finding the file system of disk partitions on your HDD:
RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk v2.2 runs on FAT16 or FAT12 partitions only.
If your OS is DOS or WINOWS 3.xx or WINDOWS 95, it is certain that all of your disk partitions are FAT16 partitions unless the partition size is very small.
Finding the file system on WINDOWS 95-OSR2 and WINDOWS 98 systems:
Run FDISK.EXE.
Select "4. Display partition information"
by hitting 4 and ENTER.
Note down the file system for the Primary Partition. It is stated under the column "System".
Press ENTER for FDISK to display Logical DOS Drive Information.
Now you can see the file system type for each partition in the Extended Partition under the column "System".
You need to have at least one FAT16 or FAT12 partition to see how much power you derive from RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk v2.2.
Advantages of a FAT16 Partition (File System)
The FAT16 File System is a blessing in disguise for so many of us from programmers to those who never defrag. On a FAT16 File System folders (directories) never get fragmented under normal usage conditions. That is, the 64 sectors (1 cluster) reserved (initially) for a folder never fills up. And on a 2 GB drive, just like folders, files too get 64 sectors in each cluster allocated to them. As sectors in a cluster are always contiguous, the more the number of sectors in a cluster, the less frequently files get fragmented. And defragmentation takes very little time.
The lesser time the defragmenter takes to defrag a drive, the more the user will use it to get his file system defragmented even in those parts of the world where power cut is rampant particularly when no UPS is in use. The lesser the files are fragmented, the higher the safety and availability of files / folders. With zero fragmentation of files and folders, one can think of 100 percent recovery of files from an accidentally reformatted drive.
FAT16 File Systems are the best because, after defragmenting the file system on a 2 GB partition, the slack space one is blessed with at the tail end of each file is, on the average, 32 sectors (16384 bytes), that is, about 10 pages of source code with heavy commenting. If you write 10 pages of source code for a program every day, you need to defrag before you shut down WINDOWS for the day.
If every one talks about optimization of disk space usage but no one is there for optimization of safety features and availability of data, sometimes your own precious source code or other works, ....
Well. If you can exploit the FAT16 file system, RECOVER Fixed/Floppy Disk v2.2 is for you.
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