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Old 08-26-2010, 10:40 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by Solitaire1 View Post
dwanthny wrote the following as part of a post:



I was able to format the SD memory card (SD card) into FAT32 through Windows Explorer but I didn't check the SD card except when I inserted it into my ereader. When I tried to view the FAT32 SD card through my ereader in Calibre it didn't show up. It's possible that my ereader isn't able to read a FAT32-formatted SD card.

This is the first time this has been an issue for me. Usually, when working with data storage I rarely work directly with the root directory of any drive. I prefer to keep few items in any root directory, and put my own items into subfolder, so I hadn't previously run into the limitations of FAT.
Have you ever (over time) placed, then deleted files/folders in the root directory?
IIRC the entries still are there, just marked inactive.

De-frag recovers this "lost space"
Norton Utilities (back before Symantec added the yellow color and odor to the product), had a "Diskedit that allowed bit level edits in the bowels of the fine system . That is when you could see what was really there.
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