On Monday 15 October 2007 2:12 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Now try it on a M/S Windows computer. > Does it show up?
Yes, no problem. > > On 10/13/07, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > Remember that your filesystem has to be Windows compatible, and if you > > > are going to get an image of a DVD of something over 4GB I understand > > > that that means NTFS. > > > My exp. has been that using the ntfs-3g progams to make the filesystem > > > is not reliable. > > > I recommend - believe it or not - that one should use Windows-XP to > > > make the filesystem on your portable usb drive. > > > > I had no problems with the following.... > > > > Create ntfs partion with > > cfdisk > > > > Format ntfs partion with > > mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1 > > > > Mount drive (writable) with > > mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -o force > > (Having first created folder /mnt/usbdrive)
