Using parted on my netbook:

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Having found an old 8gb Kingston 2.0 USB hard drive, I wanted to format and use it right away. In doing so I was having issues in Windows first seeing and second using it at all.

After checking the disk management utility I could see that there was 200mb in use, and 7gb unallocated on the hard drive.

Inserting it into a netbook and using eeebuntu allowed me to see that there was a flag on the partition saying: msftres which is supposedly a nasty flag that most people haven’t had much luck removing.

My work around or fix was to simply use parted:

mkpartfs primary ext2 0 8024

Then when I printed the partition table again, the msftres flag was no longer present, and I was able to format it in Windows for use! : )

Quick and easy…