I got a spare drive and it does work (at least for now, this drive
worked for a while before everything broke). So I sent my old drive back
to Sandisk and I'll see if it was with that specific model.
I'll also wait for some time and see if wear and tear may cause problems.
What's interesting is that the broken drive works on both Fedora and
macOS, but not Windows. That's why I didn't speculate the drive itself
was broken before.
On 4/25/22 19:30, Matt Morgan wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 11:16 AM Lily White <lilywhite2005(a)outlook.com
<mailto:lilywhite2005@outlook.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I have a NTFS flashdrive. When I plug it into Fedora, it reads and
writes normally. However, when plugged into M$ Windows, only an icon
and
a not-so-informative ``Removable media'' is shown.
When I try to reformat it with Windows Disk Management, another
not-so-informative error ``Windows cannot format the given drive''
is shown.
I then filled it with zeroes with a Chinese partition management
program
(AoMei, if that is useful) and recreated NTFS on it. It worked on
Windows. However, after a plug into Fedora it was ruined again: Fedora
recognized it, but Windows did not.
Results of `sudo fsck /dev/sdc1':
-------------------------------------
fsck from util-linux 2.37.4
Unsupported: replay_log()
Unsupported: check_volume()
Checking 256 MFT records.
Unsupported cases found.
ntfsck was unable to run properly.
-------------------------------------
So I ran `ntfsfix` on it and the following output was produced:
--------------------------------------------------------
Mounting volume... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Checking the alternate boot sector... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sdc1 was processed successfully.
--------------------------------------------------------
A rerun of fsck produced identical output.
*Note that the drive was usable on Fedora throughout the process.*
Any idea what's behind this?
------
From LilyWhite with love
I haven't done this for a while, but I used to have a similar problem
with Win7 and FAT drives; however, Win7 would always offer to repair the
drive and it would be fine again. It happened only on one series of
promotional flash drives I had bought in bulk, i.e. they were all the
same type and probably from the same production run. So I don't have
real suggestions, but a question: does this happen on all NTFS
flashdrives, or just this one? Maybe it's the drive itself.
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