I had a situation once where I hibernated with a particular drive installed in
the computer. I thought I would just remove the drive since it was powered off.
it had precious data on it. when I powered up, got the dialog box about "Could
not write $MFT" (that's the filesystem), and from there on out, no software on
the planet could recover my data. this could be one reason NOT to use NTFS for
removable drives. I think I may just make that a rule. glad someone piped up.
there are a lot of external hard drives that format by default to NTFS and you
don't have a choice, or may come with NTFS on it preformatted.
I would start pointing at the disk industry, but I could supposed you could say
that this was in set in place due to the fact that exFAT didn't even exist up
until a few years ago and even then in XP it's only with an installable driver.
for those of you who don't know: Windows EOL schedule
http://jesusnjim.com/index.html#eol
>________________________________
> From: Bret Johnson <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 7:40 AM
>Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] 4, 096 byte sectors and DOSLFN, UIDE...question
>
>
>Indeed. According to MS, exFAT is specifically designed for removable media
>like flash drives (and possibly external hard drives?). It is proprietary,
>but has been hacked enough that there are Linux drivers, and someone also has
>created a read-only DOS driver (that requires ASPI).
>
>Also, FWIW, MS also says you shouldn't use NTFS (also proprietary) on
>removable media, even though a lot of people seem to do it.
>
>
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