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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: |
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>> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in |
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> I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no |
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> avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device |
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> itself, nor with a partition for the fs. |
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> So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/ |
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With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create |
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proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. |
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(in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1) |
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