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sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

I am dual booting Windows 7 on HD, and PUppy 5.28 frugal installed on SDHC card.

The SDHC card has two partitions:
1) ext2 (contains frugal install)
2) fat32 to share data with windows 7

However, Windows 7 doesn't recognize that my SDHC card has a second partition. Is there a way to get Windows to see it?
(it only sees one partition, and thinks that this is unformatted)

thanks

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2048 Location: World_Hub

Sfeeley, I could be wrong but I think she'll be seen if you reverse the order.. i.e., your fat part first.

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2048 Location: World_Hub

If I were in your shoes I'd repartition, not change flags.

Couldn't take more than fifteen minutes or so..

You have a spare card you could test?

Flash · Posted: Thu 12 Apr 2012, 22:12 Post subject:

Are the two partitions primary or logical?

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

bigpup · Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2012, 01:13 Post subject:

Flash · Posted: Fri 13 Apr 2012, 08:11 Post subject:

Here's an explanation of primary and logical partitions.

Wikipedia also has an explanation here.

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany

Ext2 File System Driver for Windows

Works for me very well . Installed the latest i think on XP and was able to mount even ext4 partitions .

I have installed it on 7-Starter some time ago earlier where it did not assign some drive letters . Don't know the version there for now .

sfeeley · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 807

thanks--
I'll try reformatting in reverse order (keeping boot flag with the ext2) when I get a chance to sit down and back everything up.

One last question-- I think I saw somewhere that one of the following (ext2, ext3, or ext4) is a bit faster on flash cards?

(and Karl-- thanks for the ext2 file driver suggestion--I'll look into it, but I'm always super slow to install anything to windows)

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 646 Location: Tamworth UK

I would also try actually doing it from Windows - it has NO excuse then!

Semme · Joined: 07 Aug 2011 Posts: 2048 Location: World_Hub

Sfeeley, as the bootable Pup iso handles your frugal transfer- there's no need for any boot flags.

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 2675 Location: Kiel,Germany

Flash · Posted: Sat 14 Apr 2012, 11:25 Post subject:

Regarding problems caused by hard poweroffs:

For years I have kept a FAT32 flash drive plugged into an old computer that I use at work for viewing test pictures that I take with digital cameras. The computer has 512MB of RAM and no hard disk. Every morning I turn on the power and Puppy automatically boots from a multisession CD that I leave in the DVD drive. I mount the flash drive and go about my work. I leave the flash drive mounted so that I can copy test pictures to it, so I'll have a record of what I've been doing. At the end of the day I simply turn off the power to the computer without first going to the trouble of unmounting the flash drive.

I've been doing this for years without any apparent corruption of the data in the FAT32 flash drive or other problem caused by not unmounting it before turning off the power to the computer.

My conclusion is that if there's nothing currently in the process of being written to a flash drive at the instant the power is lost, power loss will not cause a problem for the data in the flash drive. I suppose that the risk of using a journaling filesystem is that the OS may occasionally generate something to write to the flash drive without you being aware of it.

Peterm321 · Joined: 29 Jan 2009 Posts: 196