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On Friday 04 Jan 2013 20:27:38 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 07:16:51PM +0000, Mick wrote |
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> > Thanks James, no luck with parted either. It'll see the old vfat |
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> > partition in there, but it will not delete it, reformat it on in |
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> > any way change it. |
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> > Different MSWindows tools also fail to operate on it. |
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> Under the heading of "grasping-for-straws"... does it have a physical |
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> write-protect switch? If such a switch was engaged, that would explain |
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> things. |
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Hi Walter, |
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No, it doesn't, but just in case it had some virtual lock I tried |
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(successfully) to run 'hdparm -L 0 /dev/sdb'. It did not make a difference. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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