Re: Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

[Robert <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Nichols wrote:
> MHR wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert
>> Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>     
>>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to
>>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize
>>> the full 8029470208 bytes.
>>>
>>>       
>> I was able to do that.
>>
>> Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t
>> and 99212 "cylinders."
>>
>> Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash
>> the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would
>> that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?"
>>     
>
> The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure
> out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk
> (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force
> way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that
> geometry.  I've never experienced any problem with that.
>
>   
That's interesting.  Would you consider sharing your script?


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