liveusb-creator -

[Bob Goodwin]

On 19/11/09 18:54, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> Bob Goodwin<bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>  writes:
>    
>>         I think I did essentially the same thing, I used fdisk to
>>         reformat the drive as Linux [83] then did mkfs ext3.
>>      
> Hmm.  Sounds like it should have worked if it was the problem I was
> thinking of.
>
> In my case I think I had a bare fat-<something>  fs on my stick with no
> msdos style partition table.  Some programs could deal, others couldn't.
>
> I'd be tempted to try one last hail mary and clobber the while drive
> with a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<yourusbdrive>  bs=1M".  If anything is
> finding a funny pattern and misinterpreting it, that should fix it.
> Writing to each sector would also reassign all bad sectors, so that base
> would be covered too.
>
> -wolfgang
>    

    Ok, I will try that tomorrow. I've been at this computer all day and
    I need a break now. I do this stuff for amusement and get too
    involved at times.

    Thanks, I'll let you know if I have any success with that thumb drive.

    Bob