On 07/01/15 12:12, Chris Walker wrote:
I have a few USB sticks which I use in my car to allow me to listen to things like iPlayer downloads.
But only one of the three is recognised by the car now. I've reformatted them under both linux and Windows 8.1 on my wife's laptop but the problem persists.
The thing that the two 'failing' discs have in common is that I have also in the past used them on my tv to record stuff. The tv reformats them to NTFS whereas the car expects them to be FAT32.
Are there are utilities I can use to see what might be different between the various sticks?
For info, one of the 'failing' discs is of the same type as that which *is* recognised in the car whereas the other disc is an almost new 32GB stick from Maplins.
gparted and fdisk spring to mind. You say they've been formatted as NTFS. Just that? My first thought was that there's been a re-partitioning done creating a partition and/or a partition table and/or MBR that the car doesn't understand. I'd be tempted to delete all partions on the USB disks, create new FAT32 partitions and old-fashioned partition table. I think you could do these things with gparted and fdisk, but I'm not entirely sure how, but I'm sure there are many how-toos and manual pages that will explain it. Good luck.
Steve