Thumb drive fart under pressure
I’m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in Philly.
As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates.
Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my flash drive =at all=.
I don’t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a problem.
Any ideas?
Rick
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 07:57:30PM -0500, Rick Womer wrote:
I???m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in Philly.
As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates.
Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my flash drive =at all=.
I don???t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a problem.
Any ideas?
Rick
MS-DOS? Really? I believe MS-DOS defaults to FAT16, while Windows went to FAT32
a long, long time ago (with, I believe, Win95). If they really are MS-DOS machines
then there may be a reason why they can't read your "MS-DOS-formatted flash drive";
the FAT32 partition size limit is 32GB, and today's thumb drives are larger than that.
Larger drives will probably use either NTFS or exFAT; Most modern systems can read
and write either of these, but it's possible that the classroom computers can only
read one of those formats, and your disks (but not, presumably, your classmates
disks) are formatted using the other one.
For the most compatibility across operating systems FAT32 file system is
your best bet. It does have a couple limitations - a max file size 4 GB
and a max partition size of 8TB. These limitations are not usually a
problem with a flash drive unless you're trying to save something like a
movie.
FAT16 is so old it's pretty much dead in the water and NTFS, standard
for Windows machines, can be both read and write to Windows, but read
only for MACs. EX FAT eliminates the file size and partition size
limitations of FAT32 but is somewhat less compatible machine/system-wise.
Assuming you don't have any files larger than 4GB, if you have two flash
drives, format one to FAT32 and the other to EX-FAT. Put your files on
both of them and see which works in the class machines.
-p
On 1/30/2024 6:57 PM, Rick Womer wrote:
I’m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in Philly.
As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates.
Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my flash drive =at all=.
I don’t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a problem.
Any ideas?
Rick
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Too big perhaps?
Rick Womer rickpics14@gmail.com schrieb am Mi. 31. Jan. 2024 um 02:17:
I’m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in
Philly.
As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an
MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates.
Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my
flash drive =at all=.
I don’t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a
problem.
Any ideas?
Rick
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Finding a thumb drive small enough it can be formatted FAT16 has been
kind of problematic for a while. I'd ask the instructor what he/she
exactly means by "MS-DOS-formatted"
On 1/30/2024 11:59 PM, John Francis wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 07:57:30PM -0500, Rick Womer wrote:
I???m taking a photography course at the Fleisher Art Memorial here in Philly.
As per our first assignment last week, I brought in ten .jpg images on an MS-DOS-formatted flash drive, as did my classmates.
Three different MS-DOS computers in the classroom did not recognize my flash drive =at all=.
I don???t know what computers my 8 classmates use, but none of them had a problem.
Any ideas?
Rick
MS-DOS? Really? I believe MS-DOS defaults to FAT16, while Windows went to FAT32
a long, long time ago (with, I believe, Win95). If they really are MS-DOS machines
then there may be a reason why they can't read your "MS-DOS-formatted flash drive";
the FAT32 partition size limit is 32GB, and today's thumb drives are larger than that.
Larger drives will probably use either NTFS or exFAT; Most modern systems can read
and write either of these, but it's possible that the classroom computers can only
read one of those formats, and your disks (but not, presumably, your classmates
disks) are formatted using the other one.
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