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On 11/19/2009 3:22 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> I suspect you did nothing wrong and that the problem is either a |
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> coincidental hardware failure or something the owner did to the stick |
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> after you returned it. Convincing the owner of that is another matter. |
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I am pretty sure that this is the case. The fact that the partition |
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table is no longer valid is very interesting, and I would be interested |
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in seeing the first 512 bytes (I believe that is where the partition |
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table resides) of the dd image, if you can make one, just to see if it's |
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corrupt or has been correctly erased. The fact that there is 2 TB left |
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according to gparted leads me to believe that it is corrupt, which would |
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mean that it is probably a hardware failure, and nothing to do with |
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Linux, as someone else said. |
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Good luck with that student, here's hoping there was nothing important |
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on that drive when it died! |
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Marcus |
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