worked for me

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I think you have to have a FAT32 format to get the drive recognized. I had a 100GB thin, portable drive and it worked just fine. It shows up as /usbdrive. This worked before the latest update of the base OS and still works for me.

Originally Posted by anjenaire

How would one check for this? (Using WinXP)

You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.

Or, try to go here:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/dow...e-software.htm

and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.

Jim

Originally Posted by jimcpl

You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.

Or, try to go here:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/dow...e-software.htm

and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.

Jim

As has been mentioned in other posts, for the drive to work, it appears that you'd need to have only a single FAT32-formatted partition on the drive. If either Disk Management or Partinfo show that there's more than that, then that may be why the Gtab can't see or mount the USB drive to /usbdisk.

Just guessing here...

Jim

I just get rid of the hidden partition, and now is a single fat32 partition. Will check and write back with results.

Originally Posted by chpimentelpr

I just get rid of the hidden partition, and now is a single fat32 partition. Will check and write back with results.

It sounds like you did find a hidden partition on your drive? If that's the case, was at the beginning of the drive, or somewhere else (at the end)?

I'm kind of assuming that the Gtab may only be able to see a FAT32 partition that starts at the beginning of the drive, but not 100% sure about that.

Jim

Originally Posted by jimcpl

You can try to go to Computer Management==>Disk Management to see what shows up there for the USB drive, but, that might now show some weird partition types. It would show the unallocated space but not the unknown partition type.

Or, try to go here:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/dow...e-software.htm

and download "Partinfo" and run that, and see what that says. That dumps out a bunch of info on partitions on the drives that your machine sees.

Jim

This particular drive only has one partition and uses FAT32 format. It is an 80GB drive (and nearly full). My other portable drive uses NTFS. The FAT32 drive says it is "healthy, active, primary partition" under "Disk Management". The graphic (Windows 7 PC, I am at home now), shows only one partition where as my "C" drive shows three separate partitions: one 30MB, one 14.65 GB and one 916.83GB.

Still scratching my head. No big deal as long as I have an internet connection and upnplay capabilities.