Re: New drive already has vfat after new fdisk

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Nat Gross wrote:
> Hi;
> Just purchased a new Maxtor 200gig usb 2.0 device. Before plugging it
> into the FC4 system, Windows was used to remove the windows partition.
> Then plugged it into FC4, recognized it ok, ran FDISK and created 3
> primary partions on it. Fdisk synced it and advised to reboot in order
> to format it.
> 
You will need to unplug the drive, and plug it back in to make sure
that the partition table is re-read. The table doesn't always get
updated when you write the new partition table.

Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!


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