Quoting Amichai Rotman, from the post of Tue, 03 Dec:
> First time I pluged it in it got detected as /dev/sda - no problem there..
> 
> But when I copy files to it and then try to read them on a Win machine I get 
> the message: "Media not formated, whould you like to format it now?"

well, if it's anything like a zip drive (just one example) it must have
a /dev/sda3 partition formatted to vfat to be recognized by winblows.
why the third partition? who knows... maybe to signify a removable
media. the best is format it from windows and use whatever it did there
from linux. in any case, it has to be a vfat partition, and not the
entire sda itself. good luck!

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