Problem: USB Recovery became unusable

[ptechno]

I made a recovery with a Toshiba External Hard Drive, I installed the linpus from it and it works perfect.
Now I try to connect my Hard Drive to any PC and it doesn't appear in "My computer", so I cant access to it content. What should I do?
I mean, windows recognises the Toshiba external HD, but I cant access it as it doesnt appear as a device (volume X

 

[dandesigns]

are you checking this on Windows OS?

once you made a recovery disk, it will be formatted to ext2 filesystem which is unreadable by Windows OS. it will tell you to that the drive is not formatted.

 

[ptechno]

Yeah, I discovered that, and I solved it, could be quicker next time? hehe.

 

[kyasuriin]

are you checking this on Windows OS?

once you made a recovery disk, it will be formatted to ext2 filesystem which is unreadable by Windows OS. it will tell you to that the drive is not formatted.

hello!
is there anyway i can erase a recovery disk? the problem is i used my 8gb flash drive as usb recovery, now i want to remove the recovery file so i can use it as an ordinary flash drive. i dont know how to reformat the flash drive in linux or can i still reformat it? :cry: