Mike O'Connor wrote:
> Jim Byrnes wrote:
> 
> 
>>Mike O'Connor wrote:
>> 
>>
>>
>>>Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>>I bought a 160 GB USB external harddrive to make backups.  I can't 
>>>>format it hpfs because it is > 64GB.  LVM doesn't seem
to want to let me 
>>>>make an lvm volume out of it.
>>>>
>>>>The manual says it is formatted for "DOS" but
readable on a MAC.  LVM 
>>>>says it is formatted NTFS.
>>>>
>>>>How do I go about formatting it JFS?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>
>>>Hi Jim,
>>>
>>>Are there any pre-formatted partitions on it?
>>>If you have DFSee you can see what it shows before doing anything to it!
>>>Those claims about DOS-Mac-NTFS don't have the ring of truth to me!
>>>
>>
>>Well not anymore.  I screwed up and shutdown without ejecting it so now 
>>LVM shows it as 96MiB and can't do anything with it.  I have an old copy 
>>of dfsee (6.04) registered but I can't get it to do anything either.  It 
>>says the disk [D3] is not ready.
>>
>>Any thoughts on how to make it usable again?
>>
>>Thanks,  Jim
>>
> 
> Hi Jim,
> 
> I get that same effect with my 512MB PenDrive Pro - if I forget to 
> "eject" before disconnecting it. As I have an LVM
volume-letter assigned 
> to it "U:", as soon as I issue "chkdsk u: /F" from
the command line the 
> volume's contents reappear - whether it's formatted FAT/HPFS or JFS.
> 
> Did you at any time have LVM volume-letters assigned to your Disk?
> 

Mike,

I don't think so.  When I first started it showed up in LVM as I:, the 
size was reported correctly and it said it was formatted NTFS, but it 
would not let me do anything with it.  In the drives folder it also was 
I: and displayed the removeable medial icon.  Now I: does not appear 
anywhere and when I tried to chkdsk it I got an error message saying it 
could not find the specified volume.

Regards, Jim


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