<div dir="ltr">well there is no difference between the two files.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:38 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Michael, I am no following the thread but: <br>
BEFORE PLUGING IN THE DRIVE:<br>
cp /proc/partitions /tmp/partitions <br>
AFTER PLUGING IN THE DRIVE:<br>
sdiff -s /proc/partitions /tmp/partitions <br>
Whatever you see is your partition, then:<br>
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd${YOUR_PARTITION_<u></u>THAT_YOU_FOUND_ABOVE} <br>
Then create a new partition (cfdisk) and mk2fs it.<br>
YMMV...<br>
ET <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Michael Havens writes: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
well.... I just went to officemax to see if windows could format it. it<br>
could not and the guys there said my drive was corrupted. So I bought a new<br>
one. I still have the 'corrupted' drive if there are any ideas out there in<br>
plug land about how to fix it. (it is so upsetting.... the drive isn't a<br>
year old yet) <br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
<br>
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Brian Cluff <<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>> wrote: <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
Pull the drive out and do:<br>
cat /proc/partitions <br>
Then insert the drive into your computer, count to 10 and run the above<br>
command again. The new drive that shows up is the one you just inserted.<br>
If you don't see any differences, run it again, the drive just might be<br>
slow in connecting to you system. If it doesn't show up at all, it might<br>
be damaged and isn't going to show up... try turning it off and back on<br>
again :) <br>
Brian Cluff <br>
<br>
On 08/25/2013 11:05 AM, Michael Havens wrote: <br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
Well, I stuck a usb drive into the computer, opened a terminal, and<br>
copied files to it. Then I forgot to umount the drive and pulled the<br>
drive out. Now I need to format it and do not know how to do that. How<br>
do I see what the drive is being called when I stick it in?<br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
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