Anne Wilson wrote, On 04/23/2008 11:31 AM:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:58, Todd Denniston wrote:
Is it a SanDisk??? I ask because they have some weird junk on their sticks
that you need to use MS to remove and it alternately looks like a partition
or a second disk when you plug it in.
DON'T delete the partitions until after removing the tool!
No, it's a DaneElec
"Can I remove U3 technology from my USB drive?"
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1450#Q13
or "U3 Launchpad Removal Tool"
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
As for just reformatting the partition that is there I would suggest three
things: 1) read `man mkdosfs`
2) consider just doing a raw RW badblocks run against the device...
How do you do that?
man badblocks
badblocks -v -w -s /dev/devicepartition
though, with ext3 I would almost suggest go ahead and format (using the
read-write badblocks test in the format, see below) and then look at the count
using
'dumpe2fs -b /dev/devicepartition'
of course, look at the man page first.
if it
comes up with a lot, you may want to just "<plonk>" the thing in the
circular file. (after hitting it with a hammer a few times. :)
It might come to that :-)
3) because you have IO problems and a big disk
mkdosfs -c -F 32 -v /dev/devicepartition
For this one I'd rather have an ext3 partition, if I can't recover it.
then I suggest more along the lines of:
mke2fs -v -c -c -j -L AnneWilsonPendrive /dev/devicepartition
'-c -c' -- Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system.
using a slower, read-write test instead of a fast read-only test.
Anne
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Todd Denniston
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Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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