Carey
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Joined: Dec. 2005 |
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Posted: Dec. 25 2005,14:59 |
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I just got through some very interesting adventures with a SanDisk Cruzer Mini 1Gig. At least, that's what I thought. When I called SanDisk, and quoted the serial number, they told me it's a counterfeit.
When I put it in a box booted from DSL, and did the pendrive install, everything went fine, but when I tried to return it to a single, 1 gig partition, I had problems. First thing I noticed was XP reporting the thing as .99 terabytes. Then sfdisk under DSL reported 1099 GB, and even with the force flag set, couldn't reset the configuration to something usable. When I boot into my normal Linux box with an updated Sarge installation, and a later version of sfdisk (3.08), I get better reporting, and I was able to create the partition I wanted... kind of. I can create a 1 gig partition that XP can see, but it still thinks there's most of a terabyte in unpartitioned space hanging off the back, so...
CAUTION: If you can, use a more current version of sfdisk than DSL provides, and remember that fdisk under DSL is actually busybox.
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