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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. You are inexperienced. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 10/10/2015 7:26 AM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
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. My fear would be if there were a problem writing to it, and the file system got corrupted, maybe just at the written file. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Iraq Veterans Against the War and Related: http://ivaw.org http://couragetoresist.org http://antiwar.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote:
On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets. You are inexperienced. I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the public. (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that Win98 installation disk). But I confess I never had a hand cranked car. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 2015-10-10 21:04, Ed Light wrote:
On 10/10/2015 7:26 AM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: 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. My fear would be if there were a problem writing to it, and the file system got corrupted, maybe just at the written file. Don't take counsel of your fears. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 2015-10-10 22:10, Lewis wrote:
In message Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 14:29, JF Mezei wrote: On 2015-10-09 13:09, Alan Browne wrote: Where FAT32 is concerned most of my flash cards are formatted in camera (FAT32) and files there are about 32 MB. No need for anything larger. Consider a HD movie that might be 6 to 8 gigs. Sometimes easier way to transfer it is via USB. Consider that I have USB keys formatted for Mac, not Windows. As was stated in the prior post (the part you snipped out). The trouble with an HFS UBS stick is that it *only* works on Macs. I only use those for bootable stick for installing OS X. I use such for all manner of things that I have no reasonably need to make available on a windows machine. This includes backups of some files that I drag between home / work. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote: On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets. You are inexperienced. I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the public. (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that Win98 installation disk). But I confess I never had a hand cranked car. Win 98 was a decent version of Windows - the best till XP IMO - and I don't recall disk errors being an issue. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 2015-10-11 11:50, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote: On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets. You are inexperienced. I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the public. (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that Win98 installation disk). But I confess I never had a hand cranked car. Win 98 was a decent version of Windows - the best till XP IMO - and I don't recall disk errors being an issue. I don't either, but it wouldn't shock me if there were. And yes, 98 was quite good, stable. But I do recall a couple blue screens of death with it. I don't recall (admittedly fuzzy here) a BSOD with XP. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
Alan Browne wrote:
On 2015-10-11 11:50, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote: On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets. You are inexperienced. I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the public. (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that Win98 installation disk). But I confess I never had a hand cranked car. Win 98 was a decent version of Windows - the best till XP IMO - and I don't recall disk errors being an issue. I don't either, but it wouldn't shock me if there were. And yes, 98 was quite good, stable. But I do recall a couple blue screens of death with it. I don't recall (admittedly fuzzy here) a BSOD with XP. Given XP's incrediable run, I'm surprised you never saw in BSOD :-) But yeah - for the most part I found it quite stable, as I also did with fully fully patched 98. 95 while neat (for Windows - it couldn't hold a candle to System 7) was a frequent source of BSOD for me. -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. |
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I don't either, but it wouldn't shock me if there were. And yes, 98 was quite good, stable. But I do recall a couple blue screens of death with it. I don't recall (admittedly fuzzy here) a BSOD with XP. Given XP's incrediable run, I'm surprised you never saw in BSOD :-) But yeah - for the most part I found it quite stable, as I also did with fully fully patched 98. 95 while neat (for Windows - it couldn't hold a candle to System 7) was a frequent source of BSOD for me. I have seen BSoDs in ALL Windows (v3.0+). I have never seen a Mac OS X crash with errors so far. I have seen hard locked up machines on all OSes though including Linux. -- Quote of the Week: "The eyeless ant asked God, 'Give me eye-lashes.'" --Georgian Proverb Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
On 2015-10-11 15:02, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-11 11:50, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote: Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-10 21:03, Ed Light wrote: On 10/10/2015 6:45 AM, Alan Browne wrote: On 2015-10-09 20:14, 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. Win98. Right. Yep. That's something to base opinion on. Sure. Tell me, do you use a crank to start your car? Don't be a psychopathic thingy. Referring to Fat32 errors on Win98 is about as silly as it gets. You are inexperienced. I was running MS issued Win98 many months before it was released to the public. (Indeed my surviving WinXP upgrade depends on me having that Win98 installation disk). But I confess I never had a hand cranked car. Win 98 was a decent version of Windows - the best till XP IMO - and I don't recall disk errors being an issue. I don't either, but it wouldn't shock me if there were. And yes, 98 was quite good, stable. But I do recall a couple blue screens of death with it. I don't recall (admittedly fuzzy here) a BSOD with XP. Given XP's incrediable run, I'm surprised you never saw in BSOD :-) But As I say, I don't _recall_ a BSOD with XP. And I've never had a BSOD since I virtualized Windows on a Mac. (Then again I don't do so much that could cause a BSOD). yeah - for the most part I found it quite stable, as I also did with fully fully patched 98. 95 while neat (for Windows - it couldn't hold a candle to System 7) was a frequent source of BSOD for me. |
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