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JElchison / format-udf

Bash script to format a block device (hard drive or Flash drive) in UDF. The output is a drive that can be used for reading/writing across multiple operating system families: Windows, macOS, and Linux. This script should be capable of running in macOS or in Linux.
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Write support in Windows XP/2003 not availiable at all #8

Closed mittorn closed 10 years ago

mittorn commented 10 years ago

All third-party utilites just only works with cd/dvd, not usb flash. If there is any utility that can work with usb flash, give me a link :)

JElchison commented 10 years ago

Hi @mittorn,

Thanks for your note. Unfortunately, the best I can do for you is probably what you've already done for yourself.

As noted on the format-udf README, write support for XP is only available with third party utilities. This information originated with the Wikipedia article on UDF Compatibility. Unfortunately, Wikipedia doesn't provide any notes as to what third-party tools are available.

I'd encourage you to employ your best Google Fu. If you find any suitable utilities, I encourage you to report back. Better yet, I encourage you to update the Wikipedia page with links to any suitable third-party utilities.

Unfortunately, this issue is outside of the format-udf tool, so I'll be marking this issue appropriately. However, I'd love to hear back in this comment thread if you have positive results.

JElchison commented 10 years ago

Relevant: https://superuser.com/questions/150864/driver-for-writing-to-udf-partitions-from-windows-xp

mittorn commented 10 years ago

I have tested jsudf driver that seems to be alternative IFS driver for udf, but it does not work because system has own udfs driver. That is a free console utility with paid GUI and driver. After i removed udfs.sys in safe mode, i have got BSOD and not booting at all system it all. I think, it can be fixed, but i dont know how stable that driver is. For example, i have working Reiserfs IFS driver, but it crashes on some partitions.