Re: New applet for removable media

Mark Williams <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.desktop.rox.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Abrolag wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:47:48 +0100
> Mark Williams<[email protected]>  wrote:
>
>> Tony Houghton wrote:
>>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:26:17 +0100
>>> Mark Williams<[email protected]>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tony Houghton wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:23:19 +0100
>>>>> Mark Williams<[email protected]>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't have Windows, so I can't test it with that. I do know that
>>>>>> neither Gnome or Xfce4 can see it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Try creating a partition and formatting it (eg with gparted). You could
>>>>> use one of the ext filesystems, but most people use FAT on USB sticks
>>>>> for compatibility with other OSs.
>>>>>
>>>> Gparted doesn't see it either.
>>>
>>> Not even if you choose it explicitly with "gparted /dev/sdf"?
>>>
>>>> I think it's a 64 bit problem.
>>>
>>> I doubt it, I use 64-bit and haven't had problems with any USB storage
>>> devices.
>>>
>> Then I don't know what it is.
>>
>> What does it mean if the little LED inside the stick is constantly flashing?
>
> It's beginning to sound like a faulty stick. Have you tried others, or
> this one in other machines?
>
I could go round to a friend's place and ask if I can stick it in his 
usb port on his Windows laptop.

How do you format/erase a usb drive in Windows?


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