Re: problems formatting SanDisk Cruzer drive as NTFS

On Feb 19, 12:29 pm, "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodg...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:22:39 -0500, William.De...@xxxxxxxxx <William.De....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Dave.  However, I am still unclear on why "sudo mkfs -tntfs /
dev/sdc" does not work?  Is there a reason I cannot format the entire
drive as NTFS (with no partition table) as I could with ext2/ext3?

I believe that is a m$ limitation.  I once had a usb drive formatted as a lvm logical
drive (i.e. physical volume that used the entire device, including track 0).  When
I forgot to unplug it, before booting into xp, xp overwrote sector 0 with an empty
parttiton table (without any warning, or messages).

Be extremely careful using entire drives, without a mbr, whenever using m$
software.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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