4gb Hitachi microdrive problems

[blaster123]

Hello all.  I recently got a 4gb hitachi microdrive for my c760, and can\'t get it to show up in the filesystem.  I have fdisked it and made it fat32.  I\'m not a linux expert, so I\'m not sure if I did this correctly or not, but I found directions on here and they looked good.  I also have a reader for my computer running win2k, claims it reads microdrives, but it hangs for about 30 seconds, then comes up \"insert disk into drive\" when I try to read it or format it.  It reads my other cf disks fine.  Is my reader bad, my microdrive bad, or am I just bad at this?  I\'m assuming its not the microdrive, cause fdisk can partition it fine, but then how do I make it show up in the filesystem?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

[TonyOlsen]

Fat32 isn\'t supported by many things... you might be better of creating 2 2GB partitions and putting FAT16 (FAT) on it instead.  I think you might get Fat32 working with Linux (since Linux appears to support all disk formats), but it may need some reworking.  I do know, however, that this card, as a Fat32, won\'t work in all (if not most) digital cameras, PDAs, and anything else with a CF card slot... You\'re better off a FAT16 (ie \"FAT\").  Hope that helps.