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(Solved) - formatted drive cant see

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richardm93
richardm93
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formatted my usb drive with Ubuntu as fat system and can copy files to it with Ubuntu but my windows computers cant see the drive. the usb remove safe shows it but cant find it anywhere on my system. Help please

Richard

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warlock
warlock
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Reformat to NTFS.

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richardm93
richardm93
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didnt give me that option in Ubuntu. did use the disk management utility in windows, deleted volume and then it let me format to ntsf. didnt give a name but did assign drive. seems to be working now. copying files now.

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richardm93
richardm93
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ok! i can see drive and copy files to it and seems to be working. no i just noticed that when you mouse over folder instead of giving size of folder it just larger than ?. seems i ran across this a long time back but cant remember how to get it to show folder size.
Thanks!

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warlock
warlock
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http://www.google.com/#hl=en&#.....38;bih=716 Look through some of these links they may help you. I don't use Linux myself.

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