format usb

[Michael Havens]

then I remembered the program 'fsck'.

dmesg
[13346.633757] sd 7:0:0:0: >Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[13346.641344] sd 7:0:0:0: >[sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~$ sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sdc
dosfsck 3.0.13, 30 Jun 2012, FAT32, LFN
open: No medium found
bmike1 at PresarioLapTop1:~$

:/


:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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