On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick: >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in > > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no > avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device > itself, nor with a partition for the fs. > So in the end I formatted them in Windows, and all was fine. :-/
With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers. (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1)
