Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 08:45:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage References: <1mbz6p4.sa3ji36xb92zN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> <4Oidnf_mgv4CgIrLnZ2dnUU7-Y_46u6z@earthlink.com> <5617238e$0$31987$c3e8da3$a9097924@news.astraweb.com> <56185854$0$65429$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> From: Alan Browne Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 09:45:30 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56185854$0$65429$c3e8da3$e074e489@news.astraweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-dKPMV1W6JbYg3x39x5+5fBIgkqz+A0D8CTMC/Mm6V+qbeTN9A0tc+e1LxW2Fu3qoCl/leCAkI5Pdq75!lpFy7H2gYWZ2fGV6TtvJpag4UUMTZqesud9Xd1E1tiAYuy+i+7ARZmBAzHG+dA0x5B5gMpzOOA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1958 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:82915 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:6521 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?