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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Formating a USB stick
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:10:44 +0100
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On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:22, KH wrote:
> ...
> as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as  
> swap (is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little  
> ram on the old vaio I used.)
> There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
> Anyway later I wanted to use it again and windows was unable to  
> format it. I think it didn't even show up.

Did you look in Disk Management?

Formatted disks show in My Computer, but disks with an "alien"  
filesystem show only in Disk Management on XP, which is a far less  
obvious place  to find.

Stroller.