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Add a helpful hint to novices

Open vthg2themax opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Add a helpful hint to novices about the error code.

vthg2themax avatar Apr 17 '20 17:04 vthg2themax

I think this is a great idea, as I've had this problem before when using WoeUSB.

LothaireCliquennois avatar Apr 22 '20 13:04 LothaireCliquennois

Yes and that Windows 10 requires NTFS and not Fat32 or is it the other way around bur yeah

RainbowTabitha avatar May 03 '20 20:05 RainbowTabitha

Windows 10 requires NTFS, doesn't work with FAT32

LothaireCliquennois avatar May 12 '20 13:05 LothaireCliquennois

Might be helpful to hint that since it still lets you flash

RainbowTabitha avatar May 12 '20 13:05 RainbowTabitha

Is this really necessary since the default implementation will recreate the partition table anyway?

During my use I get the following output:

determine_target_parameters: Info: Target device is '/dev/sde'.
determine_target_parameters: Info: Target partition is '/dev/sde1'.
Mounting source filesystem...
Wiping all existing partition table and filesystem signatures in /dev/sde...
/dev/sde: 2 bytes were erased at offset 0x000001fe (dos): 55 aa
/dev/sde: calling ioctl to re-read partition table: Success
Ensure that /dev/sde is really wiped...
Creating new partition table on /dev/sde...
Creating target partition...
Making system realize that partition table has changed...
Wait 3 seconds for block device nodes to populate...
Cluster size has been automatically set to 4096 bytes.
Creating NTFS volume structures.
mkntfs completed successfully. Have a nice day.

Under what circumstance does WoeUSB allow you to flash an image without repartitioning?

LlemonDuck avatar Jun 23 '20 23:06 LlemonDuck

@llamositopia It happened when I used it on Pop OS , and was a huge pain for me until I tried the recommended idea. If it's not helpful, it can always be ignored.

vthg2themax avatar Jun 26 '20 19:06 vthg2themax