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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I don't know how the Kobos handle it, but on Kindles the external storage is a separate partition that is exported directly (as in, the partition itself) and mounted to the computer.
I would think the Kobos were doing essentially the same thing.
As for the Win8-only thing... I don't believe Windows XP actually did any complaining. WinXP is pretty old though.
I am pretty sure it was Vista that first threw hissy fits.
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@eshwartz
I may have made a mistake with my assumption that Kobo used the Mass Storage Gadget approach to exporting the filesystem. I've been trawling through the stuff I have on my new computer and there is no sign of a MSG device being connected to it - so it must have been one of my other readers that did this (I've never connected them to this PC). I'll have to do a brain reset on that :-)
It was your post #3 that led me to believe the issue manifested itself on ALL versions of Windows so I looked for a non-OS version specific explanation. With that out of the way I think it's clear that it's Win 8.1 (and perhaps other earlier versions) that are throwing up this "error" but are unable to clear it.
As for using a hex editor to clear the bit - I CBA. I once wrote a raw disk editor to recover some deleted files on a CDOS disk by manually editing the FAT but that's years back now and I'd rather just ignore the error, which might reappear anyway. Back then (pre-Internet) you couldn't just download tools like that for an obscure O.S. you had to roll your own.
BobC