daid kahl schrieb:
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Try it in Linux first and let us know how it goes. I never formatted
a USB stick before, and it might be neat.
You can always point-and-click to format it in Windows I'm sure.
Regards,
daid
Hi,
as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as swap
(is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little ram on the
old vaio I used.)
There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
Anyway later I wanted to use it again and windows was unable to format
it. I think it didn't even show up. I had to plug it in Linux and change
to b(?).
Also I once had a problem with a fat partition of around 200gb on an
removable usb hdd. Windows does not like that big FAT. I think the
maximum is somewhere around 70? They want to force you to use ntfs then.
kh
