From: "Anil Kumar Sharma" <xplusaks@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: USB hard drive
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:26:30 +0530
On 3/31/06, Jim Douglas <jdz99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> No problem on Windows I copied file to the drive.
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First, boot into windows (I hope U have Win2000 or XP)
Go into manage (Right click 'My Computer') -> manage -> disk management
->
check the of partitons numbers and their format
(primary are 1-2-3-4. extended are 5-6-7- - - - - -)
It doesn't show any partition numbers at all on windows.
Now in linux try
# sfdisk -l << use this very very carefully, better read manpages
beforehand >>
sfdisk -l /dev/sda says "No medium found"
The only difference between this and my memory stick is that the USB HD is
FAT32. I was going to try reformatting to FAT with windows but the only
option Windows gives me is NTFS .
Could the reason Linux is not recognizing this device be because it is
FAT32?
Jim
