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. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
