Strange Behaviour With Usb Memory Pens

Hi there, I am writing about some very strange behaviour (at least in my hopinion) that Suse 10.3 has with USB memory pens.
It's actually my wife's laptop an Acer Aspire 5310 running Suse 10.3 with Gnome. She was using her memory to then save documents to then print them by other Windows computer at Uni.
The memory started to work only on her Linux laptop and not on the windows... giving some kind of message like "this is not a Win32...." I don't know what exactly the message is saying because my wife is actually in another country for a while. And I feel quite guilty that I left her go with Linux on her laptop without having sorted all these things out before.

She also borrowed other 2 memories from friends and as soon as she used them, they started to give the same problem on Windows computers. And probably will have to buy them new (this because it will be more difficult to explain her or her friends how to format the memories)


So.. what can it depend on? I find it quite weird, an operating system like Linux Suse should not have problems like this on something so common to use. I really hope it's something wrong that is set up and can be changed easily

Hi there, I am writing about some very strange behaviour (at least in my hopinion) that Suse 10.3 has with USB memory pens.
It's actually my wife's laptop an Acer Aspire 5310 running Suse 10.3 with Gnome. She was using her memory to then save documents to then print them by other Windows computer at Uni.
The memory started to work only on her Linux laptop and not on the windows... giving some kind of message like "this is not a Win32...." I don't know what exactly the message is saying because my wife is actually in another country for a while. And I feel quite guilty that I left her go with Linux on her laptop without having sorted all these things out before.

She also borrowed other 2 memories from friends and as soon as she used them, they started to give the same problem on Windows computers. And probably will have to buy them new (this because it will be more difficult to explain her or her friends how to format the memories)
So.. what can it depend on? I find it quite weird, an operating system like Linux Suse should not have problems like this on something so common to use. I really hope it's something wrong that is set up and can be changed easily
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can't say i've encountered anything like this before. do you know the file system format of the drive? by the sounds of it, it's ext3. by default, most are fat32 (or some even fat16), very few are ntfs. but by default, none sold in shops that i have seen are unix file systems. check the filesystem. this will not be a suse fault. maybe you formatted disk to ext3 before use?

Plug the memory sticks in and fun /sbin/fdisk -l from console. This will tell us more about the file systems on your devices.