format usb

[Stephen]

Not that I can think of.  My idea was you had a bad block in the wrong
place.  But this looks like something more significant.
On Aug 25, 2013 4:24 PM, "Michael Havens" <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>
>>>>> Stephen
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