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Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick

From Tony Moore <old_coaster@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick
Date 2012-02-17 21:39 +0000
Organization Aioe.org NNTP Server
Message-ID <85ee1f6352.old_coaster@old_coaster.yahoo.co.uk> (permalink)
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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.

Tony

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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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