You need to see if the drive partitions are too large for the FAT 16 format.
Depending on the BIOS and OS, you will have different restrictions on the
maximum size of a partition. Others on the list may give you specific sizes,
but try making smaller partitions if you use FAT 16.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
I've been running fdisk
to remove all partitions, fdisk /mbr to wipe the mbr, then setting drive to
one large partition and formatting it as fat16. Problem is that about 1/2
the drives won't format again; either format just stops or I get errors
indicating that the drive is bad.

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