I meant to delete completely your drive again - and use plain FAT32 to hold the maximum compatibility. If you use ext systems, use just plain ext2 because journaling systems like ext3 and 4 can be a problem (journaling rewrites to often the storage - and that shortens the drive life). If the formatting fails (like you had just quick formatted- that wipes only the data space, or it's just incomplete - this is what I think that's happened) - it marks linux thats an unkown FS, and windows couldn't handle this, or makes it broken. On third: Don't forget, that flash drives has cache on most systems - so it's a bit slower in writing out the data, and if you pull out earlier that finishes the formatting or the writing - could be have bad data chunks - what could result the same as I told you earlier. HTH. Cheers, Z 2011/1/1 JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>: > On 12/31/2010 10:45 PM, Zoltan Hoppar wrote: >> Hi, >> >> You have to wipe it the complete USB key again. When the process has >> fails, and finds some fragments - this is the result. Sometimes >> happens. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Z >> 2011/1/1 JD<jd1008@xxxxxxxxx>: >>> Using liveusbcreator to dump a linux (not of any distro) iso image onto >>> a 256GiB flash drive (Made by Kensignton). >>> >>> After selecting the linux ISO image, and setting the >>> value of the persistent storage, I click Create Live USB. >>> I get this error message: >>> >>> Unknown filesystem. Your device may need to be reformatted. >>> >>> >>> The usb flash drive has partition 1 as a fat32 filesystem. It was >>> rejected by liveusbcreator with same error message as above. >>> >>> So, I formatted it as a Ext3 filesystem. Got the same error message. >>> >>> >>> Next I tried >>> /usr/bin/livecd-iso-to-disk cd100627.iso /dev/sdc >>> >>> Verifying image... >>> /sdb4/Download/OfflineNTpassword/BootCD/cd100627.iso: Could not get pvd data >>> Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor. >>> This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum.Are >>> you SURE you want to continue? >>> Press Enter to continue or ctrl-c to abort >>> I press enter, and it exits without creating the bootable usb. >>> >>> So, I tried to use windows and follow the iso creator's instructions to >>> transfer the iso to flash disk. My winxp-sp3 does not recognize the >>> drive. And when I try to format the drive, windows says it was not >>> able to format the drive. >>> >>> It is indeed strange that I can format it under Linux, and mount it >>> and use it the ordinary way. But I cannot transfer the iso image to it. >>> >>> Any ideas what to do next? >>> >>> Thanx for your help. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> users mailing list >>> users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >>> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines >>> > I assume that by "wipe it" you mean that > I should run the /usr/bin/wipe utility on it? > I thought mkfs cleans it up sufficiently so that > it is recognized as fat partition or an ext2 partition. > Nevertheless, I will try your suggestion. > > Cheers, > > JD > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > -- PGP: 06853DF7 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
