Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick

From	Dave Higton <davehigton@dsl.pipex.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Fwd: Formatting USB stick
Date	2012-02-16 20:20 +0000
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          druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Are you sure about that?  Isn't it simply that old versions of DOSFS
assumed that there was 1 reserved block, instead of reading the
number of reserved blocks from the drive?

Dave

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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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