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boot up autoformat of Compact Flash
Name: shipleyg Date: December 13, 2005 at 07:36:46 Pacific OS: WIN XP CPU/Ram: 512MB
Comment:
I have a 32MB compact flash drive that is used in an instrument I designed that must be kept FAT16 to be used by the instrument. If I have the CF attached to my PC/Laptop with Win XP on boot up, Win XP will automatically format it to FAT32. Is there a way to disable this feature?
Name: XpUser Date: December 13, 2005 at 07:43:08 Pacific
Reply:
Does Windows do that too if you attach the CF after Windows finish loading?
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Response Number 2
Name: shipleyg Date: December 13, 2005 at 07:50:37 Pacific
Reply:
No, and that is definitly a work around, I am just afraid this will snag customers and was interested in if there was a disable feature in windows as 20% of clients take 80% of support time becuase they cannot remember what they did last week.
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Response Number 3
Name: jubalsams Date: December 14, 2005 at 00:27:54 Pacific
Reply:
Automatic format is NOT a feature of XP, as a matter of fact XP will normally use FAT16 for a 32MB volume.
Something else is going on. After this occurs does properties show FAT32? Use Drive Manager to format the CF in FAT16, does it then change after reboot?
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