Re: USB pendrive mobility (fat32)?
David S <dalidan@bigpond.net.au>:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Plugging that into the corporate WinXP laptop only displays the first
> > ca. 300 Mb ptn. Why doesn't it see the 2nd? How have I borked the
> > ptn table?
>
> I have this same issue with Windows XP too. I think its not your
> fault but the OS's. For most users one partition on a flash drive is
> standard, so WinXP must have decided to limit the number of
> partitions displayable to one.
Thanks for the confirmation. This is amazing:
> The interesting thing is, though, that Windows 98 can see more than
> one partition on a flash drive.
Amazing as in, XP can't. This seems a fairly insane design decision on
the part of MS.
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