pen on Windoze

[Leon Goldstein]

Jorge Almeida wrote:

> I have a 2GB pen drive with 2 partitions, the first one with ext2 and
> the second one with vfat. Partitioning and filesystems were made on
> linux. I set the partition type of the 2nd to 'b', with fdisk.  I use
> the 1st all the time with no problems (only on lionux). The 2nd is there
> for "just in case". I tried using the pen on a computer running NoGoodOS
> to copy some stuff, and, sure enough, it didn't work. The thing
> recognizes the hw (as USB storage device) and a disk icon appears on "My
> Computer", but it doesn't show partitions and clicking on the icon
> brings up a "do you want to format this" dialogue.
>
> So, is there something that I missed, by using linux to partition and
> make the filesystems?
>
> And if this is not fixable from inside linux, is it a good idea to let
> NoGoodOS to format it? (Meaning: can I tell it to make 2 partitions and
> can I put a ext2 fs on one of them later, on linux?)
>
I would suggest repartitioning the VFAT partition using "0C", which is 
VFAT 32 bit LBA.
I think the LBA attribute is what you need for the other OS to recognize 
the pen drive.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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