On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 15:40:53 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 2009, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > If you still have the stick, and if it still is in working condition, > > > you should be able to get it going again by repartitioning and > > > reformatting it. > > > > Yes I still have it and it is still seen as an USB device. I will try > > repartitioning it and reformatting it, let's see where it gets me. I'm > > not sure exactly how I can restore the boot sector though. Maybe I'll > > copy it from another USB stick. > > The partition's boot sector gets written when you format the partition. Correct. At least I learned something today :) Did that, got a bunch of I/O errors in return. Apparently the stick is physically dead, even though I have no idea how that happened. So probably the whole incident can be ignored, sorry for the noise and thanks for the help. -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
