Comments for What's a Volume Name?

Comment from Adrian Reedy on 2009-01-03

2009-01-03T19:16:22Z

Quote from the article:

"You can also see that my D: drive has a volume name of "RECOVERY" (placed there by Dell)"

How'd this come about? I've never seen a recovery volume with an assigned drive letter. I just assumed they were always on a hidden partition at the beginning of the drive. That's all I've ever seen on Dell and HP machines.

I was surprised as well, but it came that way and I just left it. I do hear from others who see similar.

- Leo
04-Jan-2009

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Comment from Ron N. on 2008-12-17

2008-12-17T11:52:45Z

They are in FAT32 for compatibility with older OSs, Macs, and Linux. Also, all flash drives and camera cards are in FAT.

It is still a fine format dispite what you hear. It is highly reliable, but can't handle extremely large files. Another nice thing is that ntfs uses a lot of space for the mbr, and other overhead. FAT avoids that. Just a thought.

Packrat1947

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Comment from David on 2008-12-16

2008-12-16T20:56:15Z

Funnily enough, I`d only just realised that a recently-bought Western Digital 640 gigs external drive I have been using was pre-formatted to FAT32 (why?). It only came to light when I used a lightweight fast desktop search program (instead of Google Desktop Search)called "Everything". (See: http://www.voidtools.com) which wasn't finding stuff on that drive, as the program only works with NTFS.
I tried to convert the drive to NTFS, using the command-line but kept getting a warning message that the disc was in use, despite closing everything in sight, so I took the offer for it to be done on next boot-up, but on next re-start, I got another message that the file system could not be recognised on that drive! Hmmm. However, I tried it in safe mode and it worked fine. It didn't take too long, either, just a matter of minutes. No data loss, although Microsoft do say the risk is minimal (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307881). I have two back-ups anyway, so I wasn't too concerned if it went wrong.

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