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In article , !Allen Lasting says...
I bought a 128 mb sandisk cruzer flash drive today, and noticed it's formatted FAT 16. Is there any reason why I shouldn't reformat it fat32 or ntfs? Stick with FAT16/32 as using NTFS can cause issues regarding access permissions. -- Conor Opinions personal, facts suspect. |
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"!Allen Lasting" wrote in message ... I bought a 128 mb sandisk cruzer flash drive today, and noticed it's formatted FAT 16. Is there any reason why I shouldn't reformat it fat32 or ntfs? Thanks Al Flash drives usually have a manufacturer's utility to diagnose and format the units. |
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In article , Frank says...
"!Allen Lasting" wrote in message ... I bought a 128 mb sandisk cruzer flash drive today, and noticed it's formatted FAT 16. Is there any reason why I shouldn't reformat it fat32 or ntfs? Thanks Al Flash drives usually have a manufacturer's utility to diagnose and format the units. I didn't pay much attention to this when I bought my cruzer but when I bought my MuVo TX, Creative specified to use FAT and not Fat 16,32 or NTFS. When I checked my cruzer it had been factory formatted FAT also. Ed |
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!Allen Lasting wrote:
I bought a 128 mb sandisk cruzer flash drive today, and noticed it's formatted FAT 16. Is there any reason why I shouldn't reformat it fat32 or ntfs? Linux has an fdisk that can partition usb, secure digital, compact flash etc. drives. It has formatting programs that can create FAT and ext3 (Linux) filesystems. So I expect Windows's fdisk and format programs will also work with these devices. I would say to go for it. |
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does it matter how you format flash usb drives?
I bought a 128 mb sandisk cruzer flash drive today, and
noticed it's formatted FAT 16. Is there any reason why I shouldn't reformat it fat32 or ntfs? Thanks Al |
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