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Submitted by Aciago on August 14, 2007 - 6:13pm

May be this is not the right forum... it could be the off topic but...

if I right click on my Pdrive on WinXP and choose "Format", I have only 2 options... FAT and FAT32... I want to use FAT32 (current is format is FAT), but it only give me 979Mb, can I change that using command lines? I mean, it is supposed that with FAT32 I get more space, and I'm getting less, so how can I change it...

What is the command line (and command line options) to format my usb PDrive to FAT32?

Thanks in advance

Write Protect Drive without swtich? and a couple more questions about not having the drive written to

Submitted by jbirdAngel on August 14, 2007 - 4:56pm

Hello,

Can a usb flash drive be write protected if it doesn't come with a switch on it to do so?

Also to avoid writing to the flash drive, I could just drag the folder over to the computer im working on to use the app, then delete that folder and the computer would be as it was before I was there right (aside from possible temporary things, like RAM)?

Portable Apps dont write to thumb drive... right?

Submitted by jbirdAngel on August 14, 2007 - 4:26pm

Hello,

Do the portable apps write or erase from the thumb drive? I'm thinking they don't since it looks like atleast some of them can be run from a CD, but I want to be sure.

Also if its okay to ask, Once a drives write/erase cycles are maxed out, can the thumb drive still be read, and just not written to or erased? Or can it not even be read?

Thanks - Jason

Donation

Submitted by dallen on August 13, 2007 - 10:29pm

I really like what you're doing here with the development of PortableApps. Keep up the good work. Every few days I have been checking your site and am pleased to see new apps that I find useful being added (most recently Pidgin).

I am guilty of benefitting from your hard work for free for over a year and I think it is time that I do what I should have done a long time ago and give you some money for your efforts. So, be looking for a donation from me in the next couple of days (I'm only a student so it won't be as much as you deserve).

CD/DVD Imaging

Submitted by Jacob Mastel on August 11, 2007 - 10:13pm

Does anyone know of a free CD/DVD Image creator. The porpose is to create a image to be used for a virtual CD Drive. I don't really care if it's portable I just need it to be free. Any feed back would be greatly appricated. Smile

Regular .exe programs

Submitted by jordi.c on August 11, 2007 - 7:57am

Hello,

I can only install .paf.exe programs when I chose for "Install a New App".

I have Office 2007 (word,excel,powerpoint) in portable format, how can I add these executables so they are coming visible in the apps menu like Firefox Portable.

I also have other programs which are portable and would like to see in the list under FireFox is this possible?

On softpedia.com I downloaded foobar2000 portable, why cannot I install it like Firefox Portable.paf.exe (Options->Install a New App.)?

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w199/jordicc/office2007.jpg

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