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Old October 10th 15, 03:26 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Jamie Kahn Genet
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Default Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?

Ed Light wrote:

On 10/9/2015 6:41 AM, Alan Browne wrote:

For interoperability it's best to use FAT32. I've never had any issue
with FAT32 at all in 20 years or so that it's been around


I based my post on my Windows 98 experience. It would crash often, and
you'd almost always find errors on the FAT 32 when running chkdisk.


I hadn't found an error when checking my previous USB flash drive, and
it was on my keychain getting battered around and rained on for a couple
years.
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