Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Well, it seems everyone is grasping at straws.  So far, that is the only
difference I have seen.  It's a head scratcher for sure.

Dale

:-)  :-)

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