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Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays?

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On 2015-10-12 23:17, Ed Light wrote:
> On 10/12/2015 3:02 PM, Alan Browne wrote:
>> On 2015-10-12 17:51, Ed Light wrote:
>
>
>
>>> Maybe you don't multitask heavily with lots of tabs open?
>>
>> Whatever that has to do with my USB keys is a freaking mystery to me.
>
> Well, you said Win 98 was stable for you, or something like that.
>
>>  At
>> any time I have half a dozen basic apps open
> ...
>> ... And in my Win98 days (oh so long ago) I usually had the system
>> pretty heavily loaded as
>> well.
>>
>>>
>>> OK. When you were using 98, apparently you were not getting crashes. But
>>
>> Of course I did.  But I don't recall a FAT32 volume getting messed up.
>
> Did you chkdsk it often?
>
> I didn't have a volume failure, but I ran chkdsk /f quite a few times.

Ya got me there.  It's now so far back in time that I don't recall. 
OTOH, for external "portable" media like USB keys or camera CF cards I 
would re-format often, usually in camera.  Lot's of fresh starts.

>>>
>>> Mishaps do happen between computers and USB sticks. So, errors could
>>> happen on FAT 32 that NTFS would be more immune to.
>>
>> Since to the very best of my recollection I've never had an issue with a
>> FAT32 formatted key, I'll either have to believe me or believe you've
>> had some very unlucky times.
>
> Again, do you chkdsk once in a while?
>
>>  Or you abused the devices perhaps by
>> physically pulling them during a write or before a write post was
>> complete.
>
> No, I'm very careful about writes being complete.
>
>
>> Unix and Linux formally demand that you dismount a drive before
>> physically disconnecting it.  Windows has always been wishy washy about
>> that going back to its atrocious DOS underpinnings of Win 3.x...
>
> I'm using "USB Safely Remove" which makes the safely remove operations
> pretty classy. Sometimes, though, a stick is just locked up. Possibly
> because Win 7 regards an NTFS stick more like a HD than a FAT32. But I
> can reboot to free it. Or, if nothing is lighting it up, just yank it
> and then chkdsk it to make sure it survived.
>
>>>
>>> I've had someone else's computer totally destroy a USB stick. Not a file
>>> system thing, of course.
>>
>> Hmm - I miss Windows.    Hahahaahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha,,,,
>
> I think it did it while I was in the BIOS!
> Or while I was booted into Boot It Next Generation, imaging a partition.
>
> Maybe there was a surge in the line current.

Hmm.  Yeah.  Windows had nothing to do with it.

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Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-10-11 03:26 +1300
  Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-10 18:04 -0700
    Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-11 10:04 -0400
      Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-11 17:13 -0700
        Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-12 09:01 -0400
          Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-12 14:51 -0700
            Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-12 18:02 -0400
              Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-12 20:17 -0700
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-13 20:29 -0400
                Re: Best format for USB flash drives nowadays? Ed Light <nobody@nobody.there> - 2015-10-14 01:09 -0700

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