Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick

From	Chris Newman <cvjazz@waitrose.com>
Subject	Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-02-17 22:50 +0000
Message-ID	<5263267f8dcvjazz@waitrose.com> (permalink)
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In article <85ee1f6352.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk>,
   Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 17 Feb 2012, druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> > On 17/02/2012 14:57, Tony Moore wrote:
> >
> > > If the drive is formatted to FAT32, I believe that files written on
> > > one platform may not be visible on the other.
> >
> > No, it's the other way round. Anything that can understand FAT32 gets
> > it right. If it is formatted as FAT16 by later version of Windows,
> > older software, including that on RISC OS, may not be able to handle
> > it correctly.

> Here there are two flash drives: Toshiba 256MB and Kingston 1GB. Both
> were formatted using Windows Vista to FAT, not FAT32. (Vista formatting
> options are NTFS, FAT, FAT32 and exFAT.)

> Both drives work without any visibility problem on Windows Vista, XP and
> RISC OS 6.20 Unipod.

I concur. I find much the same here with Virtual Acorn SA 4.02 & XP

-- 
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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