I formatted one of the partitions on my external hard drive as FAT32. Under Linux I am able to read and write to the partition fine. However, when I plug the drive into a Windows (or Mac, but I can't test that so easily), the drive is not recognised at all.

I formatted the partition using the SuSE partioning tool in YAST. Can anyone provide any pointers as to where I'm going wrong?

Thanks a lot.

plug it into the windows machine, restart, then under control panel, go to administrative tools, then disk managment...see if it recognized there....if it is, you can right click it, and assign a drive letter to it. (it should do that automaticly, but somtimes it doesnt)

Moved: This thread is more suitable in General and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Welcome to LQ mserms. I've decided to move this question over to the General forum, seeing as how its main intent has to do with solving a Windows issue rather than a Linux one. -- J.W.

No problem J.W. I blame Christmas nights out for putting it in the wrong forum.

fatrandy13 - I tried that, but I'm unable to get Windows to recognise it at all. The drive came preformatted as FAT32 and could be recognised by Windows, Mac and Linux (although Linux would randomly freeze when using it - I haven't tested the FAT partition enough to see if it still freezes. The Reiser partitions have been fine so far). Since I partitioned and reformatted it using Linux, I have been unable to access it at all on a Mac or Windows machine. Perhaps I did not format it correctly somehow, although I'm not sure what I could be doing wrong.