copying files from pen drive/webcam difficulties

Hi,
i am trying to copy or view/use files from my pen drive. The drive has two letters on my windows pc, L and K . L seems to be the brains of the drive whilst K is the storage area. When I insert drive into Aspire only drive L appears so I have no content as all files have to be stored on drive K. Any ideas please? I can use my webcam in Skype it's great but I cannot use it in MSN the option for camera is greyed out. Help, someone please,
Thanks in advance,

 

I believe this to be a limitation of XP, which I think can only see one partition of a usb stick.
There might be workrounds... anyone know? - worth a google.

 

Is the partition (K in Windows) formatted NTFS?

Cheers.

 

Hi,

The drive has 2 partitions; L (fat) with 2mb space. K (fat32) 4gb of space. Hope this helps.

Cheers

 

Does this help?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/ ... indows-xp/
(and remember XP will likely assign different drive letters to the ones on your other PC)

 

Plug the key into your AAO, open a terminal and do:

sudo fdisk -l

And post results here.

Cheers.

 

Hi,

Thanks for your reply, I did as you said and a blank window momentarily appears -presumably the terminal window - and then disappears again. I tried sudo fdisk -l and -k and also with no spaces and/or hyphens....same result. The AOO sees the drive in file manager but only drive L.

Duncan, thanks too but I am running windows vista not XP and i don't have trouble with windows vista seeing pen partitions. Only AOO does not see drive K.

Cheers

 

Hit ALT-F2 and type "terminal" in (without the quotes) to launch a terminal.

Then run that fdisk -l command.

Cheers.

 

Oh I see, sorry thought you were running XP on the One.
BTW, the other way to get the terminal in linpus is to click:
Files->My Documents and then in the window that pops up File->Terminal

 

ok,

this is what is says:
Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9e013f8f

Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System
/dev/sda1 * 1 850 6827593+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 851 981 1052257+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris


I then tried fdisk - k but it says invalid option -- k (then a load of other info)

Hope this helps,

Cheers

 

And the flash key is plugged into a USB port when you did this? And you DID do:

sudo fdisk -l

Cheers.