well.... I just went to officemax to see if windows could format it. it
could not and the guys there said my drive was corrupted. So I bought a new
one. I still have the 'corrupted' drive if there are any ideas out there in
plug land about how to fix it. (it is so upsetting.... the drive isn't a
year old yet)
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> Pull the drive out and do:
> cat /proc/partitions
>
> Then insert the drive into your computer, count to 10 and run the above
> command again. The new drive that shows up is the one you just inserted.
> If you don't see any differences, run it again, the drive just might be
> slow in connecting to you system. If it doesn't show up at all, it might
> be damaged and isn't going to show up... try turning it off and back on
> again :)
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 08/25/2013 11:05 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> Well, I stuck a usb drive into the computer, opened a terminal, and
>> copied files to it. Then I forgot to umount the drive and pulled the
>> drive out. Now I need to format it and do not know how to do that. How
>> do I see what the drive is being called when I stick it in?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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