On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote:

> > Device    Boot Start       End Blocks  Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 *        0    389119 194560  17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
> >  
> 
> I don't know if it matters or not but on one of my sticks, I get this:
> 
> Device    Boot Start       End  Blocks  Id System
> /dev/sde1 *        1   3915775 1957887+  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
> 
> Mine is FAT32 where yours is NTFS.  Could that difference cause this
> problem? 

No, it's just fdisk trying to guess the type of a filesystem that isn't
actually there. I've just run it over 7 distro ISOs and got "Hidden
HPFS/NTFS" for 5 of them.


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Neil Bothwick

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