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Media Formatting Types

04/06/2009 6:06 PM

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What are the Formatting types for Floppy, HDDs, CD & DVDs; Removable Media

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Re: Formatting of Media

04/06/2009 9:14 PM

Floppies use FAT16. HDDs use FAT16 with MSDOS, FAT32 with WIN98, and can use NTFS with WIN2000 or XP or they can use the older ones. Several other formats are used with Linux. I'm not sure of any choice with CDs. DVDs are bought with DVD-R or DVD+R. Why do you want to know?

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04/07/2009 8:13 PM

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Floppies use FAT or sometimes called FAT12

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04/07/2009 10:30 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
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04/08/2009 8:07 AM

The main drawback of FAT32 is there is a size limit of 4GB per file.

Many HD movies or other large files are now much larger than 4GB which neccessitates an NTFS file system.

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