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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 18:06:07 +0200
From: marco atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
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On 10/19/2012 5:56 PM, chesschi wrote:
> I am new to this forum....
>
> Marco, Thank you for your reply. I am sorry I replied you directly because I
> saw you did not post your solution to the forum but the message go
> straightly to my email......

sorry, my fault. (PS: it is mailing list not a forum)


> By the way... my flash drive is an embedded drive 512MB like a small compact
> flash and it needs an adapter to connect to the USB port. The filesystem is
> FAT.
>
> Also, I found that after using "dd" to copy the image to the flash drive,
> the flash drive is still emtpy (I cannot see anything from the Windows
> Explorer). But if I eject the flash drive and connect it back, I can saw the
> contents.
>
> Any idea how to solve the problem?


it seems really that windows need to re-read the filesystem status.

eventually you can try sysinternals sync

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897438

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