From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash
Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:16:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201301041916.53025.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130104T194046-812@post.gmane.org>
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On Friday 04 Jan 2013 18:43:48 James wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Is there some cryptic hdparm command I could run on it to reset it? I
> > mean, it's bricked as is anyway, so it can't get *much* worse.
>
> Try putting it on a windows system and delete what you can.
> Then try various tools to mount or reformat the usb stick.
>
> I've had a few and I just had to hack at them for a while.
>
> It helps if you can remember/determine, how the drive was set up.
> Fat? Fat32? NTFS? ext3?
>
> then test with appropriate tools
>
> parted may work, or tell you something about the stick.
>
> hth,
> James
Thanks James, no luck with parted either. It'll see the old vfat partition in
there, but it will not delete it, reformat it on in any way change it.
Different MSWindows tools also fail to operate on it.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-04 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 16:32 [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash Mick
2013-01-04 16:48 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-04 17:18 ` Mick
2013-01-04 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-04 19:13 ` Mick
2013-01-04 18:43 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-01-04 19:16 ` Mick [this message]
2013-01-04 20:27 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-04 23:56 ` Mick
2013-01-05 2:26 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-05 10:05 ` Mick
2013-01-07 3:13 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-07 6:44 ` Mick
2013-01-04 19:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-01-04 19:29 ` Mick
2013-01-04 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2013-01-04 23:59 ` Mick
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