On Saturday 18 April 2009 13:39:38 Jean Delvare wrote: > 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. It probably just died of old age... I have a few sticks that died on me after several months of extensive use, I guess because of poorly implemented wear-leveling algorithm. -- Dmitry -- 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
