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mac osx shows fat partitions on sd card, windows not - why?


I have an SD card which was partitioned using uboot. The card is used to boot an ARM board I've been working on. Besides the rootfs, I've created a bunch of fat32 partitions on the card to store user data.

partition layout of sd card

I want to read/write to/from the partitions on mac osx and windows. On mac osx, I can see the partitions and I get no complaints that the card should be formatted.

On windows, I don't see any partitions and I get a popup dialog box saying the card should be formatted. Is there a way to make windows show the fat32 partitions like mac osx does and not complain about the card?

pop on windows 10, part 2 popup on windows 10, part 1


Solution

  • It's a well known fact that Windows treats removable drives as only one partition.

    See here for detailed explanation.