Re: memory stick fix

Peter Gsellmann wrote:
Preben Traerup wrote:

Snap Whipcrack.............. wrote:

luismg wrote:

please help

Why did you mess with it in the first place. They work find as is.

Ever tried to handle an U3 devices in linux ?

Yes, the U3 devices work as long as you ignore the small "cd-loolalike"
partition. In W*, they are pretty useless, as one has no chance to
deactivate the "cd-lookalike" drive which installs and runs some unwanted
software.

From U3 dot somewhere you can download a small utility for Windows Only, which can rewrite the partition table for usb stick. Running this tool on my U3 stick gave me around 1.4 MB more to play with.
Who invented U3 should be xxx, yyy and zzz in public or be
sentenced to give 20 years support of Windows 95.


to luismg:
find the devicename, where the flash is connected (most of the
time /dev/sda) and try this (as root):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda count=1024
This won' work for U3 as partition table is on a cdrom look alike device

after completion, the partition table and the file system is destroyed.
remove and replug the stick to notify the OS of this fact.
Then repartition and reformat the device.

Attention: if /dev/sda is your root device, you have the chance to verify
the completeness of your system backup :-)
Oh boy you are giving a lot of rope away....

Please insert floppy in drive A:>
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