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Old 09-26-2008, 10:11 PM   #1
capnmoney
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I think I killed my flash drive


I was installing DSL from LiveCD to my usb drive, and I accidentally selected USB ZIP instead of USB HDD. Needless to say the install failed and now my system doesn't even recognize the drive. Any help is appreciated, thanks!
 
Old 09-27-2008, 12:16 AM   #2
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What is your system, and why do you say it doesn't recognize the drive?

If you have a Linux distro, take the flash drive out. Then open a terminal
and login as root and issue "tail -f /var/log/messages" and plug in the
flash drive and check the messages. Then also issue "fdisk -l" and post
the output of both of those commands here.

I doubt you killed it, but you might have fubared the filesystem and/or
the partition table.
 
  


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