Usb drive help.

You’re probably having that problem because ubuntu reformatted the specified partition size to a new “extended” filesystem, which can’t be read in windows without special software. If you try to explore the drive under ubuntu and have the same problem, don’t forget that there’s a swap partition which the OS uses in addition to ram…If I remember my old installation correctly, it was a few hundred megs, but that might depend on the amount of ram you had on the machine you installed it with.

I remember having a similar problem with a 1gb thumbdrive when I installed damn small linux on it.

I think the thing to do here would be to completely reformat the drive back to fat32, and create a smaller partition to install ubuntu on that will be recognized by the installer. This can be done in windows under logical volume management, I think. (when you right-click on my computer, hit manage, then you shoud seec disks or something similar).

Espin01, you shouldn’t install Ubuntu to a 4GB USB drive the normal way. I wrote up some instructions on how to put Ubuntu on your USB drive which, even though it says is for Feisty, can work on any version after Dapper by using an image other the modified image. If you have any questions you can ask me here or in the comments on that post.

thanks guys. I fixed it by reinstalling it. By the way, zarnold, I installed using the pendrivelinux persistent ubuntu 7.10 package so I could boot from usb.

can I mail my USB drive to you and you help me?