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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:10:53
Message-Id: F75D8868-699F-494B-9548-CE5E69A0D724@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick by KH
1 On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:22, KH wrote:
2 > ...
3 > as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as
4 > swap (is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little
5 > ram on the old vaio I used.)
6 > There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
7 > Anyway later I wanted to use it again and windows was unable to
8 > format it. I think it didn't even show up.
9
10 Did you look in Disk Management?
11
12 Formatted disks show in My Computer, but disks with an "alien"
13 filesystem show only in Disk Management on XP, which is a far less
14 obvious place to find.
15
16 Stroller.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de>