[TriLUG] Flash Drive Size Limit?

Ron Young ronyoung at nc.rr.com
Tue Aug 5 11:29:22 EDT 2008


Thanks to all who responded!  You all are great!!  Reformatting the flash
drive on his windows box to fat32 (even though it was already fat32)
apparently removed some of the proprietary stuff installed by the mfg and it
now works on both OSs!

Thanks again!

Ron

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Ron Young <ronyoung at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have an acquaintance who is currently using two flash drives (a 1GB and a
> 2GB) interchangeably between his windoze box and his linux box with no
> problems.  He has recently bought a 3GB flash drive and though it works in
> his windoze box he is unable to use it in the linux box.
>
> Is there a way to format the 3GB flash drive to work on both OSs?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Ron Young
> 919-621-9015
>



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