8
3
Not long before, I executed dd
on my USB drive, but later when I needed it. I found it could not be formatted in Windows Disk Management, which said "The system cannot find the file specified." So I had my USB drive formatted on Linux.
now issue occur. Windows 8.1 does not assign a drive letter, making it unable to be accessed in Windows Explorer, and though it is shown in WDM, any operation returned message mentioned above. But there is no problem when on Linux on my machine and on Windows on another machine.
How did you format it? What happens if you format it with an MBR and a FAT32 partition? – Mario – 2014-05-17T09:20:07.817
@Mario I used
dd
to zerofill MBR,cfdisk
to create a partition, andmkfs.vfat
to create filesystem. Nothing wrong happened. I copied some files into USB driver, and they could be read on another Windows machine. – Noverull – 2014-05-17T09:51:51.027So another Windows PC is able to read it, just not your own? – Mario – 2014-05-17T09:52:50.370
@Mario Not exactly. Linux is able to, but Windows is not. – Noverull – 2014-05-17T09:54:15.980
Asking due to this: and they could be read on another Windows machine. – Mario – 2014-05-17T10:17:51.800
@Mario Sorry, what do you mean? – Noverull – 2014-05-17T14:38:37.820
You said the drive worked on another Windows machine, but at the same time you say it works on Linux only. – Mario – 2014-05-17T15:13:43.027
@Mario Sorry for confusing you. It works on another Windows machine, but also works on my machine when Linux is running. – Noverull – 2014-05-17T16:15:19.447
Okay, that's very confusing. Did you try reformatting the drive as a whole on the other Windows machine? (Use diskpart to recreate the mbr as well as the partition.) – Mario – 2014-05-17T16:52:37.173
@Mario
diskpart
solved this problem! I just didclean
,create partition
andformat
on my own machine. – Noverull – 2014-05-19T16:11:10.717Then feel free to post some quick step by step instructions (i.e. the content of your last comment) as an answer and accept it. :) – Mario – 2014-05-19T19:57:59.607
@Mario But you advised it. Wouldn't you post one? – Noverull – 2014-05-20T04:23:38.407