Ricoh not accessing USB drive

[mikadonovan]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

try to format the sd with panasonic "SD card formatter"(its free, seek on google), if not the law so, then it is incompatible, there is nothing to do

Thanks, Luca. I use the formatter all the time for SD cards, and I was unaware it could be used for usb drives. I just checked my usb stick, and the program does recognize it. Cool.

[niceville318]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

UPDATE Everyone!

I compared the non-working usb drive with one of their working usb drives in Disk Management. The non-working drive's partition was not Active. Right-clicking wouldn't help because "Mark Partition as Active" was grayed out.
I then opened the Command Prompt and using Diskpart was able to clean the disk, reformat it and then, in Disk Management, make the partition active. I gave them the instructions how to fix the rest of their 500 drives on their own

[Gift]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

Nice work!! I wonder if the panasonic formatter tool would do the trick, too..

[slimslob]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

UPDATE Everyone!

I compared the non-working usb drive with one of their working usb drives in Disk Management. The non-working drive's partition was not Active. Right-clicking wouldn't help because "Mark Partition as Active" was grayed out.
I then opened the Command Prompt and using Diskpart was able to clean the disk, reformat it and then, in Disk Management, make the partition active. I gave them the instructions how to fix the rest of their 500 drives on their own

In the early days of DOS, a partition needed to be "Active" in order to boot from it. Partitions that would only be used for file storage did not need to be active. With Ricoh MFP it might be that the underlying UNIX based OS required the partition to be Active in order to automatically mount it.

Nice work!! I wonder if the panasonic formatter tool would do the trick, too..

Possibly not. There are however partition wizard utilities available online that will allow you to do everything from one screen:

1. Low level format
2. Create partition
3. Mark as active
4. Format partition

[luca72]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

In the early days of DOS, a partition needed to be "Active" in order to boot from it. Partitions that would only be used for file storage did not need to be active. With Ricoh MFP it might be that the underlying UNIX based OS required the partition to be Active in order to automatically mount it.



Possibly not. There are however partition wizard utilities available online that will allow you to do everything from one screen:

1. Low level format
2. Create partition
3. Mark as active
4. Format partition

"Mini partition tool" for Windows, can do this, and more.

[luca72]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

Nice work!! I wonder if the panasonic formatter tool would do the trick, too..

Could be beautifull, if he have tryed....for feedback

[slimslob]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

"Mini partition tool" for Windows, can do this, and more.

I have used the free version of MiniTool for years.

[luca72]

Re: Ricoh not accessing USB drive

I have used the free version of MiniTool for years.

me too, i'm a mini partition tool lover, it saved my ass a lot of times ... even at home