Mounting a USB drive (windows format)

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> No...  reformatting to Fat32 didnt help :(
> 
> On Dec 21, 2007 1:49 PM, Jeffrey Kesselman <jeffpk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm.
>>
>> It is a FAT file system.
>>
>> But it isn't automounting :(  And I can't figure out what it "name"
>> would be to manually mount it...
>>
>> Maybe its the weird U3 Cruiser software.  I'll get a second drive,
>> they're cheap now, and reformat it and see if that helps.
>>
>> JK
>>
>>
>> On Dec 21, 2007 1:39 PM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What kind of "windows format" do you mean?  In my experience HAL
>>> automatically mounts FAT and FAT32 USB keys and probably big drives as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> If your drive is formatted NTFS that may be the problem, as I do not
>>> reckon the XO to ship with the NTFS write-mode driver.
>>>
>>> -Ivo
>>>
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It's very rare to find a USB stick formatted with anything other than
FAT32, although it does happen. I've also had Windows refuse to read USB
sticks formatted FAT32 by a Linux machine. The other way almost always
works -- format it FAT32 on a Windows machine and you'll be able to use
it anywhere.