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Subject: Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?
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From: Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 12:05:54 -0400
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On 2015-10-11 11:50, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> 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.