On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Robert Nelson wrote: > Yet more disinformation, Microsoft hasn't released a desktop OS in more than > 7 years that required FAT or even selected it as the default on new > installations.
FAT32 is STILL the standard shipped filesystem on most laptops, prebuilt desktops and external hard drives (and FAT16 is the standard on sub-2GB flash filesystems). Most users don't know enough to switch them to HFS+ or NTFS. I can't see that changing anytime soon. Some makers (including Toshiba and Acer) consider converting a filesystem from FAT32 to NTFS to be a warranty-busting move, so even if a user knows enough to make the change it may backfire on them. Finally: Microsoft didn't invent FAT12. This is what has prevented them asserting patent claims on the derivative filesystems FAT16 and FAT32 and even in the early days of consumer hard drives there were better filesystems available such as Minix (Which Microsoft itself sold at one point) In the case under consideration, the disk itself is fine, but the filesystem is badly corrupted due to user error. It may be possible to recover most files, but odds are high many older ones will have chunks overwritten due to the damaged index structure. Please take the flamewar somewhere else. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
