On 08/18/2010 10:22 PM, Parshwa Murdia wrote: > > Oh, but I tries that pen drive in other PC too (my friend's) and it is > not even getting detected there (in Windows XP Prof.), so it made me > to conclude that there is some internal problem of the pen-drive, > which again is a guess but with probability more than 80%! When you do not have a partition table, Windows does not know what to do with it, so it will not show up as a drive in My Computer. It will show up in the hardware list. While you can use a drive with no partition table, such as you created when you formatted /dev/sdb, it requires you to manually mount it. Even with a proper parition table, if it is not formatted as FAT, VFAT, or NTFS you will be limited in where you can use it. A lot of printers, media players, etc do not understand NTFS. Now, if you have used /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sdb, you would have had better luck. But you want to be careful when you use command line tools as root - they do exactly what you tell them to do, without checking if you really want to do that. If you had used /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb, you would have wiped out your system. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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