pen on Windoze

[Leon Goldstein]

Jorge Almeida wrote:

>On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Jorge Almeida wrote:
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>>>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
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>>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.
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>Thanks, Leon. I changed the partition ID (using command t of fdisk)--I
>suppose it´s what you meant by repartitioning? It still doesn't
>recognize format...
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>Jorge
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Jorge: this may help.  It shows how to format a USB  memory device as 
FAT 16 rather than VFAT 32.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en

> Since most USB sticks come pre-configured with a single FAT16 
> partition, you probably won't have to repartition or reformat the 
> stick. If you have to do that anyway, use *cfdisk* or any other 
> partitioning tool to create a FAT16 partition, and then create the 
> filesystem using:
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> # mkdosfs /dev/sda1    /(Note: if your FAT partition is the second, 
> use /dev/sda2, obviously.)/
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> Take care that you use the correct device name for your USB stick. The 
> *mkdosfs* command is contained in the |dosfstools| Debian pa



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Leon A. Goldstein

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