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Re: formatting flash drive

From	"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject	Re: formatting flash drive
Date	2011-10-22 20:06 +1100
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myfathersson wrote:
> Just bought a 32 gig Micro SD card on line and suspected it might not
> hold the whole 32 gigs. (I once had some chinese made 2 gig mem stick
> which after a year only held 1 gig)
>
> It did, so I put it in a Mac and rewrote to it 7 times. Suddenly it
> only holds and formats to 2.79 gig (HFS or FAT32). Big Surprise!!
>
> Curiously it does show up theoretically (in Snow Leopard Disk Utility)
> as a 32 gig drive but only holds those 2.79 gig
>
> Moving into the realm of making something out of nothing I was
> wondering:  Playing around with it, does anyone know of some
> particularly destructive formatting program i can try to see what it
> can do with this drive please.? I can use it on a PC running XP, Vista
> 7or Mac

What do you mean by particularly destructive ?

Obviously writing to it much more often than the hardware even
claims to support will destroy it. But whats the point of that ?

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formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-10-21 20:43 -0700
  Re: formatting flash drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-22 20:06 +1100
    Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-10-22 13:13 -0700
      Re: formatting flash drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-23 07:47 +1100
      Re: formatting flash drive Frank Williams <FWilliams@happy.com.ru> - 2011-10-23 13:24 +1300
        Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-10-22 20:34 -0700
          Re: formatting flash drive "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2011-10-23 15:01 +1100
            Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 10:04 -0800
              Re: formatting flash drive Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-11-07 20:47 +0000
                Re: formatting flash drive myfathersson <licensedtoquill@gmail.com> - 2011-11-30 07:10 -0800
                Re: formatting flash drive Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2011-12-01 01:34 +0000

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