Re: [NTLK] OT: USB Pen Drives

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Mar 31 2004 - 11:19:08 PST

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Marco Mailand wrote:
> "John Ruschmeyer" wrote @ 30.3.2004 22:40 Uhr / <jruschme_at_comcast.net>:
>
>>I almost wonder if it is some quirk of the
>>formatting of this drive (I was almost tempted to try reformatting it with a
>>single FAT to see if that made a difference)
>
> A single FAT??? Did you partition it in two drives and thus having two FAT's
> (file allocation tables)? Or is there an option to have two FAT for one
> partition? Maybe the memory is defective...

Every FAT partition contains two copies of the FAT itself, simply for backup
purposes.

Recall that FAT stands for File Allocation Table.

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