format usb

[Michael Havens]

dmesg
[ 4018.120517] sd 6:0:0:0: >[sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 4018.121453] sd 6:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~$ sudo fdisk /dev/sdd
fdisk: unable to open /dev/sdd: No medium found

Am I doing something the wrong way?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> Try an fdisk and see if it will let you create a partition to format.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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 at 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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