On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 18:32 +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >>>> By the way, what happens if you try to repartition the 32-GB card using > >>>> this reader under a different OS? > >>> > >>> I'm not able to repartition it under Windows, in the USB card reader, > >>> and in the built-in card reader. > > > > Why not? Doesn't that prove there's something else wrong, somewhere? > > Probably my poor Windows skills, as the built-in Windows partitioner > doesn't want to repartition any card, even in the built-in card reader ;) It's an intentional cripple-ware feature of the Windows disk manager - it believes that removable media shouldn't be partitioned, so refuses to allow you to do so, or even to delete or remove partitions from them. So even if everything is working normally, you won't be able to re-partition the card with the supplied Windows tools. (I found this out when an old digital camera partitioned the first 8GB of a 16GB CF card, and all the new ones refused to make it any bigger, even for a full format. Windows would show you the problem, but not let you fix it, so I had to use Linux to wipe the card and be able to format the full 16GB. Has worked fine ever since.) Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
