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   Mark Dodel to All   
   Re: formatting to FAT32   
   28 Mar 11 19:58:43   
   
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   From: "Mark Dodel"    
      
   On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 01:33:05 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
    wrote:   
      
   -> > Currently I have no windows installed anywhere, but since I stopped    
   -> > playing with Linux I haven't done much with my FAT32 volume either.    
   -> > I'd be willing to test [CHKVOL] if you make it available.   
   -> >   
   ->    
   -> I've already tested it a lot.  (-:   
   ->    
   -> What I'm interested in are these errors that CHKDSK cannot fix, what    
   -> they are, and whether CHKVOL fixes them.   
   ->    
   -> But you can try out FORMAT if you like.  You might enjoy seeing what a    
   -> FAT volume formatted with FORMAT looks like in Linux.  For further    
   -> enjoyment, run CHKVOL and see what Linux makes of the volume them.  (I    
   -> mention Linux merely because you have it.  The same enjoyment should be    
   -> obtainable with Windows NT.  Although, for interesting reasons, it    
   -> cannot be obtained with DOS-Windows 9x.)   
   ->    
   -> And when you have a blank FAT volume, there's probably something else    
   -> that you can try.   
      
   Actually I no longer have Linux either.  I had to delete all the    
   OpenSUSE volumes because when I last "updated" it, it overwrote the    
   MBR, somehow  changed the order of all the partitions and I couldn't    
   boot eCS any more.  What was weird was I had everything working fine    
   before that.  I'm hesitant to screw with Linux anymore.  Back then I    
   had both my T42p and my T61 so I could risk it.  Unless I pick up a    
   cheap laptop to play with.  I should have bought one of those T43s    
   they had for sale at Warpstock last year.   
      
   Mark   
      
      
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