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  #11  
Old October 11th 15, 02:03 AM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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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.

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Old October 11th 15, 02:04 AM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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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.

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Old October 11th 15, 03:04 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Default 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.
  #14  
Old October 11th 15, 03:04 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Alan Browne
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Default 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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Old October 11th 15, 03:14 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Alan Browne
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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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Old October 11th 15, 04:50 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Jamie Kahn Genet
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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.
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  #17  
Old October 11th 15, 05:05 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Alan Browne
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Default 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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Old October 11th 15, 08:02 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?

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.
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Old October 11th 15, 08:33 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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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.
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Old October 11th 15, 08:59 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Alan Browne
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Default 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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