Reason #328 why I love FreeBSD...

[W. D.]

At 20:19 2/14/2006, Sam Sutch wrote:
>No, and I'm not aware why anyone would use FAT anymore in the first
>place. NTFS negates the problems 

"purports to negate"

>one might have with FAT tables and a
>quick format is suffecient for any Windows install. 

Just had a problem where the data couldn't be accessed
with NTFS.


>Also, NTFS can
>install on a fresh drive without any partition tables.
>
>Sam
>
>On 2/14/06, Hamell, Rick (ACS) <rick.hamell at nike.com> wrote:
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>> >>> I dont get it.
>> >>> A "quick format" in Windows XP will suffice for virtually anyone. It
>> >>> takes less than a minute. Also, less waiting time means less coffee.
>> >>> Makes no sense to me.
>> >
>> > AFAIK you can't quick format a bare drive. only one that was previously
>> > formatted.
>> > - --
>>
>> And, Quick Format just destroys and rebuilds the FAT on Windows. It doesn't
>> reformat every block on the hard drive (which use to be a big problem, but
>> according to Microsoft isn't any longer.)
>>
>> Rick
>>
>>
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