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On Friday 04 Jan 2013 18:43:48 James wrote: |
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> Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Is there some cryptic hdparm command I could run on it to reset it? I |
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> > mean, it's bricked as is anyway, so it can't get *much* worse. |
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> Try putting it on a windows system and delete what you can. |
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> Then try various tools to mount or reformat the usb stick. |
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> I've had a few and I just had to hack at them for a while. |
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> It helps if you can remember/determine, how the drive was set up. |
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> Fat? Fat32? NTFS? ext3? |
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> then test with appropriate tools |
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> parted may work, or tell you something about the stick. |
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> hth, |
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> James |
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Thanks James, no luck with parted either. It'll see the old vfat partition in |
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there, but it will not delete it, reformat it on in any way change it. |
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Different MSWindows tools also fail to operate on it. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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