From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive
Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 17:30:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705181730.56074.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070518164818.ab91cf1a.hilse@web.de>
On Friday 18 May 2007 16:48, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> I'll answer another question first: The asterisk indicates consecutive
> lines w/ the same data. So here, we have a full block (512 bytes,
> 0x000-0x1ff) containing almost only zeros. It stops with a valid
> master boot record magic number (0x55aa). This MBR doesn't contain
> anything, so there's no partition table, either. It also might be a
> part of a FAT file system's boot sector (the end-of-sector marker
> bytes).
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I did not know about the meaning of the asterisk...so your explanation
does make more sense than mine. Thanks for clearing up things.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-17 11:36 [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive Mick
2007-05-17 11:51 ` Elias Probst
2007-05-17 12:56 ` Mick
2007-05-17 14:45 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 15:38 ` Mick
2007-05-17 15:49 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:03 ` Tim Allingham
2007-05-17 16:04 ` Mick
2007-05-17 16:25 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:26 ` Tim Allingham
2007-05-17 22:27 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-18 8:29 ` Mick
2007-05-18 9:24 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-18 11:50 ` Mick
2007-05-18 12:25 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-18 13:11 ` Mick
2007-05-18 14:09 ` Dan Farrell
2007-05-18 14:48 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-05-18 15:30 ` Etaoin Shrdlu [this message]
2007-05-18 15:16 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2007-05-21 9:47 ` Mick
2007-05-21 12:30 ` [gentoo-user] Corrupt USB pen drive [ot] Dan Farrell
2007-05-17 16:35 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Corrupt USB pen drive Francesco Talamona
2007-05-17 21:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Etaoin Shrdlu
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