wrote:
> I have a small fat16, ntfs, & hpfs.
>
> If I don't eject properly, or sometimes I guess it
> is just bad juju
> with electrons and the thumb drive can't be read for
> some reason.
> I've always
> managed to get the data to reappear using chkdsk
> that is applicable
> to the partition for which the data is missing and
> for fat16 I
> don't think it made a difference.
Yes, I think we are getting closer to an answer in
this regard. During the time I was using thumb drives
in the 512M or 1G class, they all came as FAT-16, and
either OS (or both) were fine -- unless some
corruption got introduced. (I still don't know if the
Win LFNs screw up anything on these drives, so far as
eCS is concerned. From what ISTR, that would have
been the rare exception, though.) The 2G thumbdrives
are probably still FAT-16 when you buy them. (I've
never partitioned or reformatted a thumbdrive . . . so
far.) Anything larger than 2G is going to be FAT-32
when you buy it.
So, I'm thinking that -- with this particular 4G
thumbdrive -- my FAT32.IFS access to it under eCS was
there in the early going, then for some undetermined
reason, it just quit. I've never lost access to the
FAT-32 W2K partition on this laptop though --
fortunately. But the thumbdrives I've bought for some
time now have been 4G in size, and the 8G ones -- when
they go on sale -- are approaching what has become the
former common price of the 4G ones. If this is going
to be an issue now, I may have to start doing what Jon
does, or relegate the 2G ones for eCS.
Jordan
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