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hack.augusto

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

flash drive + Arch, and Windows

This week I got a little problem with grub on my computer and I needed a live-cd, because I didn't have any media to burn I installed arch on a flash drive and re-installed grub. now I'm unable to use the flash drive on windows XP, I have it with a ext2 partition with arch (sdb1) and a fat partition for data storage(sdb2) that is unaccessable.

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: flash drive + Arch, and Windows

It's another great strength of Windows, it sees only first partition on flash drives, unless you do some strange magic which doesn't always work - google for more info. The solution would be to put the storage partition first.

hack.augusto

Member

From: Brazil

Registered: 2008-08-28

Posts: 124

Re: flash drive + Arch, and Windows

Thanks for the answer, I will `dd` the partiton, redo the partitions, and `dd`everything back again - poor little drive -
Hopefully it will work