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Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick

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In article <jhhdrm$m7m$1@dont-email.me>, druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
> On 15/02/2012 20:13, Fred Bambrough wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
> > Without using an add-on utility to read FAT32 you want FAT16.

> You want to use a FAT32 utility in any case, as versions of Windows from
> XP onwards do not follow the FAT16 specification which RISC OS's built in
> DOSFS understands.

> Windows creates a variable size FAT32 root directory instead of the old
> fixed sized root directory which FAT16 was supposed to have. This leads to
> files being written by Windows which aren't seen by RISC OS, and vice
> versa, as they are looking at different root directories. Incidentally
> files aren't overwritten as allocation area is used correctly by both.

> FAT32FS understands the use of the variable sized root directory on both
> FAT32 and FAT16 (and I assume FAT12), so avoids this problem.

Thanks for that explanation.
Er! I don't think FAT32FS will run on my RiscPC.

-- 
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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