[FONT=Lucida Grande]I have been investigating some of the Linux distro’s with flash drives and am quite impressed with a few of them. Opensuse seems very polished. The Sandisk flash drives, I have been using,have a slow transfer rate so I decided to buy a second hard drive for a couple of Linux distros to reside upon.I think the Sandisk Ultra or Extreme would be OK, but decided to go the second hard drive route instead.My goal is to leave Windows boot loader and hard drive one alone and just switch boot options in the EFI/Bios screen at start up from hard drive one to hard drive two
When I insert a flash drive into my computer that is loaded with Linux,Windows 10 gives me the prompt that " a problem is detected with this device would you like to scan and format to fix the problem".Windows cannot read the Linux files. Am I going to get this prompt every time I start my computer with a second internal hard drive attached with Linux installed? Is there a way to get Windows to stop giving this prompt or ignore the second drive? Your advice appreciated.
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Could be Windows only want Windows and will do anything to stop you using anything but Windows. But hot plugging a USB drive is different then a fixed drive at boot. I would not expect any problem since you are not mounting the partition on the drive in Windows thus it should be OK. But with a USB drive plugged into an operating system the OS sees the USB put being Windows can not do anything with it so wants to erase your stuff.
A pure guess here.
Your drive is probably GPT partitioned. I’ve noticed that the opensuse installer leaves partitions there with microsoft partition types. Try using “gdisk” to change the partition types to linux. Then, maybe, Windows will ignore them.
I am using linux partition types on my second drive, and Windows is not complaining.
Hmm, I should add that I have Windows 8.1. I have no experience with Windows 10. It’s possible that Windows 10 is a chronic complainer.
Recently, I have been messing with flash drives and have found that some routines that put GPt on the drives have a backup remaining when I try to clean up the drive with “gdisk” as reported with Pmagic’s gparted.
The only way I have been able to clean them up to restore to pure FAT32/VFAT is with “fixparts” using fixparts-1.0.1-1.x86_64.rpm using this guide
http://www.rodsbooks.com/fixparts/
Works for me – thanks to rodsbooks who I think wrote “gdisk” too.
Last track hold copy of partition table
Yes, this is true. There’s a backup copy of the GPT table on the last track(s). I use either “fixparts” or the “z” (zap) operation in “gdisk” when I want to clear that.