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Re: [LUG] USB disk

 

install easeus partition manager(free)version and see if that finds it or acronis disk director paid only.
alex the noob


--- On Thu, 2/2/12, stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <stinga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [LUG] USB disk
To: list@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thursday, 2 February, 2012, 10:25

On 02/02/12 09:55:31, Dan Dart wrote:
> Did it occur to you that windoze purposely doesn't recognise anything
> but the first partition in a USB disk...
> ... and won't offer to make a new FS on blank media?
> If anything, you'd be lucky to see it in disk management.
>
> XP I'm assuming? That's all I know that hates these disks.


Nothing really occurs to me when it comes to Windows, It is 'magic' to me, it's a wonder it works at all...

XP/VISTA/7 tried them all, all the same, won't see the disk.

Is visable in BIOS though (When not in the housing).


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