Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vikki Roemer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition
because it was the boot environment, and MS presumed that some other OS,
that DOS was not compatible with, would reside on any other primary
partitions (this is a theory on my part, but seems to fit the facts).
Windows can see multiple partitions. 4 logicals, yadda ya, like
Linux. In fact, I've heard of setups where multiple partitions work
better than one big one. Starting with XP (I think) a separate
partition for {\Windows\,\Program Files\} and {\Documents and
Settings\, etc} is recommended. I'd have to double-check at school,
though. (I only remember enough Windows stuff to pass tests, and then
forget most of it afterwards.) But anyway, the WinXP computers at
school have multiple partitions.
WinXP *does* seem to see thumbdrives weirdly, though.
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later and couldn't remember who the email was sent to.
Two: You said ...4 logicals, yadda ya, ..., above. The discussion
was not about logical partitions, it was about *primary* partitions.
I meant to say up to 4 *primaries* (or 3 primaries, 1 extended, and an
almost unlimited number of logicals).
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Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Wackojacko wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (and that was my prefered way of partitioning). Regards, Andrei Me neither, and a little googling on the subject seems to suggest this problem is limited to the driver windows uses for USB sticks. Apparently, there is a work around (not tested by me) by forcing windows to see your stick as a USB disk (1). This will only work on PC's that have been modified for your particular stick though. Suppose its an extra level of security and you could always carry the modified driver on the first partition of the stick for portability. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t69211.html I suppose I should have stated at the beginning, the basis I was working from. I worked for a company that made PC compatible hardware, in the late '80s to early '90s. I do not recall which version of DOS was available at that time (and I don't think there's a need to research it). I think it was around version 3 or 4. The point is, not a modern version by any stretch of the imagination. What I do know is that DOS would only create one primary partition and would not let you delete or modify anything other than the one it created. I never tried actually using a second primary partition, I was simply told that it didn't work. Maybe that statement should have been more like it 'didn't work reliably', or some such. And, I'll say this, given the situation and what I knew about DOS back then, I would certainly not have trusted the setup, even if I'd tested it and found that DOS could see other primary partitions as valid drive letters. -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (and that was my prefered way of partitioning). Regards, Andrei Me neither, and a little googling on the subject seems to suggest this problem is limited to the driver windows uses for USB sticks. Apparently, there is a work around (not tested by me) by forcing windows to see your stick as a USB disk (1). This will only work on PC's that have been modified for your particular stick though. Suppose its an extra level of security and you could always carry the modified driver on the first partition of the stick for portability. HTH Wackojacko (1) http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php/t69211.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Vikki Roemer wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition
because it was the boot environment, and MS presumed that some other OS,
that DOS was not compatible with, would reside on any other primary
partitions (this is a theory on my part, but seems to fit the facts).
Windows can see multiple partitions. 4 logicals, yadda ya, like
Linux. In fact, I've heard of setups where multiple partitions work
better than one big one. Starting with XP (I think) a separate
partition for {\Windows\,\Program Files\} and {\Documents and
Settings\, etc} is recommended. I'd have to double-check at school,
though. (I only remember enough Windows stuff to pass tests, and then
forget most of it afterwards.) But anyway, the WinXP computers at
school have multiple partitions.
WinXP *does* seem to see thumbdrives weirdly, though.
One: please direct your replies to the list, not me personally.
Because: a) others may benefit from your comments; b) I subscribe to
the list and would prefer to get list related email through it.
Two: You said ...4 logicals, yadda ya, ..., above. The discussion
was not about logical partitions, it was about *primary* partitions.
As far as I'm aware, DOS/Windows recommends creating a single primary
partition, with any extra space allocated to the extended partition
which is then subdivided into logical partitions. This is what I
understand and what you, I believe, are saying, as well.
Linux, Windows, Solaris x86 and any other OS that runs on x86
architecture while using the DOS/Windows based partitioning scheme will
handle any number (I suppose there's an upper limit, I have no idea what
it might be) of *logical* partitions created within a single *extended*
partition.
The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with
multiple primary partitions on a disk.
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Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. I don't recall ever having problems with Windows and multiple primary partitions (and that was my prefered way of partitioning). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:51:00PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: As far as I'm aware, DOS/Windows recommends creating a single primary partition, with any extra space allocated to the extended partition yes, but The difference is that, for Linux at least, it will also work with multiple primary partitions on a disk. DOS can also happily use more than one (FAT16 and/or FAT12) primary dos partition (on the same disk): I have pratically seen that (without tricks such as hiding the type of the partition and so on) and a google search will confirm that. (However, those multiple primary partitions were not created by the official DOS fdisk; dos uses such multiple partitions even when it was not the creator of them). The interesting feature is that MS-DOS and DR-DOS give (under some usual circustances) different drive letters to those extra primary partitions, which can be useful in a DOS-multiboot system. I suppose that freedos can both create and use such multiple primary partitions, but the debian package dosemu-freedos does not contain a fdisk executable. I am also sure that *BSD can use such multiple `primary dos partitions' aka slices (but some versions have problems with some kinds of multiple slices each with a *BSD disklabel: at least some years ago it was not possible to have FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD in triple boot in the obvious way). -- Chi usa software non libero avvelena anche te. Digli di smettere. Informatica=arsenico: minime dosi in rari casi patologici, altrimenti letale. Informatica=bomba: intelligente solo per gli stupidi che ci credono. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's been a lng time since I've dealt with this ;) I've had quite a bit of practical experience with this myself. As for the statement by several posters that Win98 can see more than one partition, I have no idea why that would be. Perhaps it's a bug?-) Are you a MS apologist? The accusation is it worked, and (by design?) no longer works, in some proprietary OS. I have to wonder why, when Linux has no trouble doing it, proving the hardware's still capable. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Adrian Levi wrote: For the list, On 09/02/2008, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux /dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? [Knoppix and /scratch are on the two 83s, yet to be tested. :-)] Please correct me if i'm wrong but I thought that windows could only handle one primary partition per device. Perhaps that is where your problem lies. remake your pendrive with cylinders 39 127 as sda5 (extended) and you should be fine I think. Adrian It's been a lng time since I've dealt with this ;) A hard disk can, as others have noted, have up to 4 primary partitions. But Windows (and MSDOS), can only use/see one of them at a time. This goes back to when Microsoft was DOS only and hard disks were first becoming available. The primary partition has a maximum size limit, so when larger hard disks arrived, a solution was needed. But backwards compatibility was maintained by leaving the primary partition as is and adding the 'extended' partition feature, with 'logical' partitions in it. So, why allow multiple primary partitions? Because Microsoft was looking to support booting multiple operating systems, one of which was called Xenix (UNIX V7 derived OS). Then, there was also OS2. To boot a different OS, you had to load an fdisk program to reset the active partition. Rather clumsy, but it did work. DOS, and then Windows, allowed seeing only the active primary partition because it was the boot environment, and MS presumed that some other OS, that DOS was not compatible with, would reside on any other primary partitions (this is a theory on my part, but seems to fit the facts). As for the statement by several posters that Win98 can see more than one partition, I have no idea why that would be. Perhaps it's a bug?-) -- Bob McGowan smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
David S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Marc Shapiro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on the part of MS. Does Vista do this, too? Yup. Stunning. We are helping. We are helping. -- Mainframe df: /dev/sda1 298M 0 298M 0% /media/usbdisk-1 /dev/sda5 282M 2.1M 265M 1% /media/usbdisk-2 /dev/sda6 769M 697M 73M 91% /media/usbdisk-3 /dev/sda7 2.5G 3.8M 2.4G 1% /media/usbdisk-4 fdisk -l: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 498 36949505 Extended /dev/sda5 39 75 297171 83 Linux /dev/sda6 76 173 787153+ 6 FAT16 /dev/sda7 174 498 2610531 83 Linux Corp. laptop sees sda1, only. The other three are not only inaccessible, they're invisible (WinXP on Dell Latitude D620). Microsoft: Partitions?!? Isn't that how all those fsckin' Linux users are getting it installed on our boxes? Well, let's just forget about partitions then. You go, girl. What a bunch of pathetic wimps that outfit is. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
s. keeling wrote: David S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not your fault but the OS's. For most users one partition on a flash drive is standard, so WinXP must have decided to limit the number of partitions displayable to one. Thanks for the confirmation. This is amazing: The interesting thing is, though, that Windows 98 can see more than one partition on a flash drive. Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on the part of MS. Does Vista do this, too? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Marc Shapiro wrote: Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on the part of MS. Does Vista do this, too? Yup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
For the list, On 09/02/2008, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux /dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? [Knoppix and /scratch are on the two 83s, yet to be tested. :-)] Please correct me if i'm wrong but I thought that windows could only handle one primary partition per device. Perhaps that is where your problem lies. remake your pendrive with cylinders 39 127 as sda5 (extended) and you should be fine I think. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? erno hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
On 09/02/2008, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Adrian Levi: On 09/02/2008, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux /dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? Please correct me if i'm wrong but I thought that windows could only handle one primary partition per device. Perhaps that is where your Is that USB device? That's new. HDs can handle four primaries, or three primaries and an extended which holds many logicals. USB is different? Those are all primaries up there. Can windows display 4 primary partitions or are you talking about linux? I'm specifically talking about windows' ability to display more than one primary partition on a device be it pen drive, usb hard drive, sata/ide drive. I'f I'm wrong and windows can display more than one primary partition on a device please let me know, I'd love to know. problem lies. remake your pendrive with cylinders 39 127 as sda5 (extended) and you should be fine I think. Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do for my purposes. I just want WinSPIT to see a couple of fat ptns on the stick so I can transfer files. That's what i'd do next. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? erno hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
On 2/8/08, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the files in the stick and reformat it to just one primary partition, and then restore everything? I'm not sure why you'd want multiple partitions on a USB stick anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On 09/02/2008, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/8/08, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the files in the stick and reformat it to just one primary partition, and then restore everything? I'm not sure why you'd want multiple partitions on a USB stick anyway. He's got a portable Linux distro on one of the partitions. sda3 is marked as bootable. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can windows display 4 primary partitions or are you talking about linux? I'm specifically talking about windows' ability to display more than one primary partition on a device be it pen drive, usb hard drive, sata/ide drive. I'f I'm wrong and windows can display more than one primary partition on a device please let me know, I'd love to know. Until now, it always could, but apparently, MS broke that mold when it came to pendrives. That's what i'd do next. Done. Test it Monday. erno hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. Is it WiFi? It may not be in your apartment. Maybe your neighbour stole it? Need a web cam on that thing. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
David S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: s. keeling wrote: Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not your fault but the OS's. For most users one partition on a flash drive is standard, so WinXP must have decided to limit the number of partitions displayable to one. Thanks for the confirmation. This is amazing: The interesting thing is, though, that Windows 98 can see more than one partition on a flash drive. Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on the part of MS. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2/8/08, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do Wouldn't it be just simpler to copy off the files in the stick and reformat it to just one primary partition, and then restore everything? No need to copy it. All data's on hard drive too. I'm not sure why you'd want multiple partitions on a USB stick anyway. Really? Well, considering this experience (this was suggested by a friend): think of multiple ptns as a security feature. If the stick falls into the hands of a script kiddie, he's not going to have the smarts to wonder why that single primary ptn he can see is empty. He won't see 2nd, 3rd, ... ptns because Windows doesn't bother to let him know they're there. Secondly, the web doc I'm looking at says to create a 750 Mb fat16 ptn and cp KNOPPIX and boot/isolinux/* to it. XP understands ... XP, so fat of some sort for my sneakernet to corp XP boxes. I might even tinker with a crypto ptn on this thing. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux /dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? [Knoppix and /scratch are on the two 83s, yet to be tested. :-)] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 - -http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.htmlPlease, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
Incoming from Adrian Levi: On 09/02/2008, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, I think this stuff (talking to Win*) sucks too. And this is a Win* problem (sorry) but I'm a Debian user, not a Win* user, so I'm ignorant wrt this stuff. 4 Gb pendrive from Staples: (0) phreaque [root] /etc_ fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 4103 MB, 4103938560 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 498 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 38 305203+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda2 39 127 714892+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/sda3 * 128 225 787185 83 Linux /dev/sda4 226 498 2192872+ 83 Linux Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? Please correct me if i'm wrong but I thought that windows could only handle one primary partition per device. Perhaps that is where your Is that USB device? That's new. HDs can handle four primaries, or three primaries and an extended which holds many logicals. USB is different? Those are all primaries up there. problem lies. remake your pendrive with cylinders 39 127 as sda5 (extended) and you should be fine I think. Ick. Doesn't that mean blowing away ptn4 then three then create extended and ... (logical ...)? Which I shouldn't really need to do for my purposes. I just want WinSPIT to see a couple of fat ptns on the stick so I can transfer files. [Booting Knoppix off the other ptns is an unrelated but interesting sub-project (pendrivelinux).] -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
s. keeling wrote: Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the ptn table? Hi I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not your fault but the OS's. For most users one partition on a flash drive is standard, so WinXP must have decided to limit the number of partitions displayable to one. The interesting thing is, though, that Windows 98 can see more than one partition on a flash drive. However, the problem doesn't seem to affect portable hard drives. David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
