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An updated FAT standard from Microsoft. It expanded on the aging FAT-16 file system and allowed for much larger partitions. FAT-32 was created as a quick-fix to the problem of computers shipping with hard drives over 2 GB. Prior to FAT-32, computer manufacturers had to messily split hard drives into multiple partitions under 2 GB in size apiece. Imagine the tech support questions: "Why do I have a D: and an E: drive?"
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FAT-32 - On Fri, 09 Apr 2004 19:14:41 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:No... they knew they couldn't fix my drive before I even sent it tothem. It's a known issue - if a firmware previous to a certian rev ison the drive and a DVD-R is attempted to be written to, it frys thelaser.If you bought it brand new (hardly possible since its been outta productionfor nearly 2 years), you would be convered under warranty, and I would justasked for a new drive instead of sending it out to get fixed. Since its adrive over 3 years, what do you want them to do? Give you $25; which is whatthe drive is worth?No - I'd like the drive working.The FACT that you tried to burn to media it didn't SUPPORT shows that youdidn't bother to research it. You're trying to burn to a media it didn'tsupport could be the reason why it doesn't work.No.. once again, the typo was on my part. It's a known support issue.Since it's a known issue that attempting to write to a DVD-R will frythe laser, and yiou attempted to write to a DVD-R disk and fried thelaser, just how is it that you expect them to repair it for free?
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