On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:43:40 +0100, John Austin wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 17:24 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> [quoted text muted] > Important questions > > How does it appear in XP as fat32 or NTFS or ..... It looks like fat to me, but I don't know for sure. > Has the disk any data on it ? Yes. > Has it ever been partitioned or formatted ? Not by me. I'm sure someone did it. It came with some software, most of which I deleted. It pops a few windows on WinXP, one of which gives you the choice of entering a password or deleting all of the data. I like this choice. I give it the password. > How big is the device MB/GB 1G > > No entries in the partition table suggest it has not been partitioned or > formatted. > > BUT > > I do have a USB stick that mounts as /dev/sdc > /dev/sdc on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uhelper=hal,uid=202,utf8,shortname=lower) > I believe this to be unusual !! > > > > John Thanks for any suggestions. Mike.
