format usb

[Michael Havens]

so there is nothing I can do to rescue this drive?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>> Stephen
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