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Comment by outworlder

5 days ago

They are unlikely to still work.

If they do, immediately copy the data over. They tend to crumble and fall apart (and contaminate the drive head, which will need cleaning)

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kristianp  4 days ago

Not to mention that USB drives tend to ignore read only tab and Windows writes the "System Volume Information" folder to the drive.

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