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After a netbook instalation of Jolicloud, the USB stick I used was partitioned in two:
- 1.44Mb partition recognized as A: (floppy drive) in XP and /dev/sdd in Ubuntu
- the rest (4Gb - 1.44Mb) recognized as F: (removable media) in XP and /dev/sdc in Ubuntu.
Now, I want to have again only one partition on the USB drive and I can't.
I tried the "HP format tool" and some low level format tool in XP but it only formats the F: drive, skipping A:
In Ubuntu I tried fdisk but, apparently, because the drive is seen as two different drives (sdc and sdd) I cannot unify the partitions. The only thing I can do is to format and delete each one separately.
I wouldn't mind having the two partitions but this means that the dongle is no longer bootable .
Do you have any other idea on how to unify those two partitions?
You need to use GParted in Ubuntu to delete both partitions, and then create a single partition set to the maximum size of the device. You can do the same with FDisk in XP; however, you'll be restricted to FAT32 or NTFS.
I installed Gparted, and it says that I have two different drives: /dev/sdc/ 3.82Gib and /dev/sdd/ -512.00 B (minus !).
I can format the first partition only at 3.82Gb and if I try to format the second, I get: "A partition cannot have a length of -1 sectors" (duh!).
So, I have two separate devices on one USB dongle and I have no idea how to get them back in the initial phase: Only one partition on the stick.
I have no idea what the Jolicloud installer did, but I'm beginning to regret that I've tried it :|.
I formated both drives with Disk Utility from Ubuntu:
Code:
Model: MEMUP (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 4111MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 4104MB 4104MB primary ext4
Error: Can't have the end before the start! (start sector=16065 length=-13185)
Model: MEMUP (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 1475kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1536B 1475kB 1473kB primary ext4
After I deleted the partitions from Gparted I get:
Code:
Model: MEMUP (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 4111MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
Model: MEMUP (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 1475kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
Last edited by song2asdaq; 05-02-2010 at 12:15 PM.
It appears that you have a drive with the U3 format so you need a special uninstaller to remove the partition.
You can get it from here : http://www.u3.com/support/default.aspx#CQ3
Unfortunately the uninstaller only works from windoze. I used Vbox running XP pro to remove the U3 crap from 4 of my SanDisk Cruzer sticks. What a pain. If you have a buddy that runs windoze, maybe you can convince him to let you use his machine to do it (easier).
Before I have installed Jolicloud on the stick I hadn't had this 1.44Mb drive. So I don't think it's U3 related.
I also tried to install U3, thus to have something to uninstall . But:
Quote:
Please insert a compatible SanDisk drive
No chance.
@brucehinrichs
Thanks. I have a dual-boot at this moment so I could easily go back in XP. It's not a sandisk, it's a Memup:
Code:
PnP Device ID: VID = 13FE PID = 1E20
Serial Number: 077B16B51379
Revision: PMAP/PMAP
Device Type: Standard USB device - USB2.0 High-Speed
Chip Vendor: phison
Chip Part-Number: unknown
Product Vendor: MEMUP
Product Model:
I tried also to find a way to "flush" it, but i couldn't find the software for these particular PID and VID.
So I have to stick to some idea of formatting it.
Also, /dev/sdd/ is not a ISOFS partition (like in the case of U3). I can format it, copy on it & stuff (in Ubuntu and XP). The problem is that it's seen as another drive. Which sucks, big time!
Last edited by song2asdaq; 05-02-2010 at 01:44 PM.
Reason: complementary infos
I've tried it, but apparently it doesn't do sh*t. After the LLF, I can still access the drives, which remain untouched with the same file system.
I've tried to disable the floppy from Windows and then LLF. Same story.
According to Jolicloud you should be able to deal with it in windows disk management.
I don't believe you haven't already tried that, but that's the answer I keep getting from them.
In Disk Management I can't see the little (1.44Mb) partition. I get only the big one (as a whole disk actually) which I can format, of course; but with no effect on the USB stick.
Disk Management: http://bayimg.com/image/famafaacf.jpg
I don't know if it's my stick's fault or the Jolicloud installation really screwed things up. Urgh!
Yes, now I'm not that sure that it's Jolicloud's fault. It's just a bad usb stick. I've decided to use it as it is.
I managed to get another ubuntu installation on it, and with some bios tweaks I got it to boot on my netbook. Simply, I just ignore the 1.44Mb partition.
Thank you for your patience .
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