Hello Szaka,
I think I found what I was doing wrong. When running fdisk to create the
partition, I wasn't setting the partition type when creating the partition. I
created it with Linux partition, wrote it to the disk, went in and changed the
partition ID to NTFS and then wrote that to the disk. I think it needs to be
done in one step and not two steps. If I set everything correctly in fdisk
before writing the partition info to the disk, it seems to work OK. I'm not
sure why it doesn't work in two steps.
Thank you for your help!!
-Russell
Hi,
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Russell Sloan wrote:
> Has anyone had a problem with formatting a drive with mkntfs while
> mounted using NTFS-3G and then hooking the drive up to a Windows machine?
> I've tried it a couple of times over the past 3 days and the Windows
> (XP-SP2) machine doesn't recognize the formatted partition.
Before I started ntfs-3g, I intentionally made mkntfs compatible to FORMAT
basically on the bit level to facilitate and speedup a reliable driver
development. There isn't difference if you use FORMAT on Windows or mkntfs
on Linux. So no, nobody reported such problem so far and mkntfs is fairly
often used in many different ways.
Perhaps you didn't set the partition type to NTFS, thus Windows ignores it
completely?
Regards,
Szaka
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