*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 545911 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545911
This bug is due to another "technological advancement" by Microsoft.
I reformatted and partitioned my flash drive (4 GB Mushkin) using
Windows 7, and I told it to use FAT32, but instead it used VFAT without
telling me (the user).
VFAT is what is causing the problem. It is patented, and therefore is
probably not well-supported in Linux. A Wikipedia article outlines why
installing Linux to a VFAT volume is impossible. We are having this
issue here. See this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT_filesystem_and_Linux
My personal conclusion is that this is another ploy by Microsoft to
prevent Linux from being installed on personal devices (since people
will probably do the same thing I did).
Screenshot:
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/1200/flashdrivevfatmtab.png
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gparted crashes at startup - Assertion failed
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