new external drive

[Stephen Partington]

Get gparted and use it to take a look. Lots of USB drives have some wonky
trick they use.

On Nov 24, 2016 12:04 PM, "Michael" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I got a problem. This new drive won't format. Linux saw it when I first
> plugged it in. I then tried copying some files to it which resulted in an
> error appearing after 5-10 minutes telling me to open windows and run
> 'chkdsk \f' on the device. Then I plugged it into windows10 and couldn't
> figure out how to open a terminal so I decided to format it. But it
> wouldn't format. When I attempt to it flashes twice a second for a little
> then a long flash then again quickly. So I figured I would attempt the
> format with Linux but Linux doesn't see the drive now so no formatting with
> it. Can someone help?
> --
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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