From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53FA61382B9 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E787F21C0D8; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:19:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f170.google.com (mail-we0-f170.google.com [74.125.82.170]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2D8CB21C0BB for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f170.google.com with SMTP id r1so8108938wey.29 for ; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:17:07 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=kFoxrIH2Gr9Zs4Fs+BJoti/zzdSR1mGW6LreiAW9USA=; b=vzksvAQGFND/uk5A5UsatClFdgPoqXmOEqppfgjsL+/6og3NFllRgMWNnFXwoVoGs1 v8hrF+Bo+3sL/JGDxscSKu0C76TzW8uWb25jRRBJsfdu4Mqs70QO9bcXv7iK4SiQilN5 vAPLNmgOsJY4jxNM57XDAmIHgeFV8meIqlaSBC/4CJawlM0S1XjyHGaUa0Ntjtw0xfcL e5NkBdm3H6GByh60rBw2cE21zQnaxTPJpfrK9s9btg2jurqJoL55Fu4057uOTztSMKUW ZRscrhKqFAl9rwHEYrPX51/5wryeEfts33LKVxXCduzYQEbKtqafGeNA65WVvDMweMnZ cFRg== X-Received: by 10.180.19.99 with SMTP id d3mr82776032wie.4.1357327027776; Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h19sm324939wiv.7.2013.01.04.11.17.06 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:17:06 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 19:16:51 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.6.11-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201301041632.26752.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201301041718.38230.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1582169.ykhfShqKi7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201301041916.53025.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b0af6d2f-1c99-436d-884e-d9f8a24efc89 X-Archives-Hash: 3cc87f8196f9ec1bcab6247cf54ccd55 --nextPart1582169.ykhfShqKi7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 04 Jan 2013 18:43:48 James wrote: > Mick 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. >=20 > Try putting it on a windows system and delete what you can. > Then try various tools to mount or reformat the usb stick. >=20 > I've had a few and I just had to hack at them for a while. >=20 > It helps if you can remember/determine, how the drive was set up. > Fat? Fat32? NTFS? ext3? >=20 > then test with appropriate tools >=20 > parted may work, or tell you something about the stick. >=20 > hth, > James Thanks James, no luck with parted either. It'll see the old vfat partition= in=20 there, but it will not delete it, reformat it on in any way change it. Different MSWindows tools also fail to operate on it. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1582169.ykhfShqKi7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlDnKqQACgkQVTDTR3kpaLYJzwCffBZwXQFgZW6+Ne3SQvAgSSW1 VtwAoMFJr5KdmQHNyvBNJKiglIB8Sd9B =0U2P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1582169.ykhfShqKi7--