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New Ouch - so those are useless re HPFS?
Does that imply --> to do sneakernet, one needs to save a small partition formatted in FAT, xfer data there: then it's accessible via those handy little buggers?

New No. The format on the flash drives is FAT.
As long as your OS understands how to talk to a USB drive, it'll be able to read it because just about every OS can read and write to FAT. You almost never need to format a flash drive - it comes preformatted as FAT.

FAT32 hard drive partitions are a different beast.

So no, you don't need to worry about how you format your hard drive as far as talking to a USB flash drive is concerned. Linux, XP, Win2k, OS X, WinMe, Win98SE can all talk to USB ports and can read flash drives. You can write to it in OS X and read it in Winders and Linux, and vice versa. The flash drive doesn't care what the native hard drive file system format is.

HTH.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Ah, that makes more sense
It's the missing half of Greg's terse comment :-)

(ie formatting one of those dongles in other-than FAT - if even possible - would be counterproductive)

     Some Qs + Any suggested lock-down templates for Ex Pee? - (Ashton) - (16)
         Some answers. - (Another Scott) - (4)
             Re: Some answers. - (Ashton) - (3)
                 I understand now. What a nightmare. - (Another Scott) - (2)
                     A good checklist for securing XP. - (Another Scott)
                     Interim report.. - (Ashton)
         I had some success with the Ewido product. - (a6l6e6x) - (1)
             Gracias! Alex - - (Ashton)
         NTFS->FAT32 conversion - (pwhysall) - (6)
             Embedded Devices usually use FAT. -NT - (folkert)
             Was thinking of compatibility, not excellence - (Ashton) - (4)
                 Forget about FAT except for USB thumb drives. -NT - (folkert) - (3)
                     Ouch - so those are useless re HPFS? - (Ashton) - (2)
                         No. The format on the flash drives is FAT. - (Another Scott) - (1)
                             Ah, that makes more sense - (Ashton)
         'Process Guard' - Beastware nanny from Oz - (Ashton) - (1)
             ICLRPD. (new thread) - (Another Scott)

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