Le 28/05/2017 à 16:08, Jamie White a écrit :
I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is,
when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first
sector to identify the drive and its size.
No, this information is not stored in the first sector nor
I would suspect you need a specialist application to sort this, thing is,
when you plug in a disk drive, the system uses information from the first
sector to identify the drive and its size. You get a similar problem when
you zero out an entire hard disk, and there the solution is to manually
enter
Le 26/05/2017 à 23:06, Martin McCormick a écrit :
I have a 128 GB thumb drive which has been sitting in a
drawer for 2 or 3 years because it is not completely dead but had
a traumatic event.
(...)
The drive is dead. The controller is still responding but the storage
part is gone. Don't
On Sat 27 May 2017 at 14:19:29 (-0700), David Christensen wrote:
> On 05/27/2017 12:40 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> >David Christensen writes:
> >># cat /etc/debian_version
> >8.8
>
> >># uname -a
> >Linux audio2 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) i686
> >GNU/Linux
>
> >># f
On 05/27/2017 12:40 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
David Christensen writes:
# cat /etc/debian_version
8.8
# uname -a
Linux audio2 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) i686
GNU/Linux
# fdisk -l /dev/sdc
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: No medium found
# dd if=/dev/zero of
David Christensen writes:
> Please verify the device node for the USB flash drive (e.g. /dev/sdc), run
> the following commands, and paste your console session into a reply:
>
>
> # cat /etc/debian_version
>
> # uname -a
>
> # fdisk -l /dev/sdc
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc count=2048; sy
Fungi4All writes:
> Wild guess would be to use gparted and delete all partitions then
> use dd if=/dev/zero 128000x1024 or more and see what the firmware would
> do.
> I think it would reset itself once everything is deleted from it and
> refilled with 0
> blocks to the max. I don't think you ca
On 05/26/2017 02:06 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
I have a 128 GB thumb drive which has been sitting in a
drawer for 2 or 3 years because it is not completely dead but had
a traumatic event.
It worked fine until the night it accidentally got
over-filled after a backup script tried
From: marti...@suddenlink.net
The data are probably not of any importance any
longer but the drive probably cost close to $100 when it was new
and it seems so close to being usable. Any constructive ideas are
appreciated.
Wild guess would be to use gparted and delete all partitions then
use dd if=
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