format usb

[Stephen]

Yeah looks like nobody is home to partition. The device is there so the
controller is good but it will not do much else.
On Aug 25, 2013 4:20 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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