On 19/11/09 18:54, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:I think I did essentially the same thing, I used fdisk to reformat the drive as Linux [83] then did mkfs ext3.Hmm. Sounds like it should have worked if it was the problem I was thinking of. In my case I think I had a bare fat-<something> fs on my stick with no msdos style partition table. Some programs could deal, others couldn't. I'd be tempted to try one last hail mary and clobber the while drive with a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<yourusbdrive> bs=1M". If anything is finding a funny pattern and misinterpreting it, that should fix it. Writing to each sector would also reassign all bad sectors, so that base would be covered too. -wolfgang
Ok, I will try that tomorrow. I've been at this computer all day and I need a break now. I do this stuff for amusement and get too involved at times. Thanks, I'll let you know if I have any success with that thumb drive. Bob -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
