From: nowhere@never.at   
      
   On 26/03/2023 08:23, muta...@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > What model smartphones do you have?   
      
   Samsung   
      
   > Also - do you not have a friend or relative that can format   
   > a FAT-32 USB stick for you?   
   >   
   > And apart from that - whenever you buy a USB stick, they   
   > come preformatted as FAT-32.   
      
   that depends on where you buy it. the 15 pieces I got weren't empty and   
   they show USB Joliet format. I can access rd/wr files but not format.   
      
   > USB hard drives come preformatted as NTFS in my   
   > experience, but not USB sticks or SD cards. And   
   > there's another option - if you have an SD card from a   
   > camera it is probably already formatted as FAT32,   
   > your PC probably has a SD card reader slot, and your   
   > PC is probably able to boot from SD card too.   
      
   nope, no SD reader here.   
   I have one USB3 HD in use for data backup, I wont mess it.   
      
   AND AGAIN, I'm not going to do anything soon right now !   
   I still gather info in case I once decide to act in future.   
   __   
   wolfgang   
      
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