Fwd: Formatting USB stick

From	Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com>
Subject	Fwd: Formatting USB stick
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-02-15 18:55 +0000
Message-ID	<5262094265cvjazz@waitrose.com> (permalink)
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Hi,
I am sure this has been asked many times before but if I ever remembered the
answer, I have certainly forgotten it now. Sorry if this question is a bit
basic.
I have several thumb drives / memory sticks / USB flash drives (call them
what you will.
I am using a RiscPC 700  Adjust 4.39 & want to format them to be compatible
(& with Windows etc) They are all 2GB or below to be usable on my machine.
I want to format some of them to clear stuff & ensure there are no errors. If
I stick them in my Windows machine & choose Format, the top of the list is
FAT so I presume this means they are currently FAT16. Am I right in that
assumption? Is there any other way of checking what the current format is?
Should I reformat them as FAT (16) or is there any advantage in formatting
them FAT32? Will my RiscPC even recognise FAT32?

Regards,

-- 
Chris Newman

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Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-15 18:55 +0000
  Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-02-15 19:29 +0000
    Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-17 14:12 +0000
      Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-17 14:57 +0000
        Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-17 15:34 +0000
          Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-17 16:00 +0000
            Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-17 22:53 +0000
        Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-02-17 19:33 +0000
          Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-02-17 21:39 +0000
            Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-17 22:50 +0000
  Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Fred Bambrough <fred@[127.0.0.1]> - 2012-02-15 20:13 +0000
    Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2012-02-15 23:07 +0000
      Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com> - 2012-02-16 00:13 +0000
      Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick jeff <jeffrey.a.doggett@gmail.com> - 2012-02-15 23:57 -0800
      Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-02-16 20:20 +0000

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