[PLUG] Second drive visibility - Was Damned Small USB or better

m0gely m0gely at gmail.com
Fri May 29 17:16:14 UTC 2009


drew wymore wrote:

> Stupid question but does is it actually already formatted with an FS? Vista
> refuses to see a drive when it's not formatted and sometimes it decides it
> doesn't need a drive letter, I have to assign one (retarded software!). I
> haven't used 7 yet except for a quick once over in a VM .. refuse to install
> it heh. In Vista though you have to go into the Administrative Tools ->
> Computer Management -> Disk Drives (or something like that)  and assign a
> drive letter and format the FS.

Right, because Linux takes an unpartitioned bare drive and partitions, 
formats, and mounts to the mount point you would've chosen anyway, 
automatically!

-- 
m0gely



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