OSX86 Thumb Drive Cannot Be Repartitioned
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A friend of mine gave me a thumb drive that he's been unable to fix. He installed OSX on it in an attempt to make a "Hackintosh". Attached is a screenshot of the device's current partition scheme. Any time I try to modify the device's partition scheme it fails. I've tried doing it with GParted and the Gnome Disk Utility (palimpsest), as well as doing the following command as root to try and force a low level format.
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc The type of thumb drive in question is an 8 GB Centon Datastick Pro. There is no write protection measure that I'm aware of on this thumb drive, I have several of them identical to it that are 4 GB and other than two small holes in the end to attach a wrist strap, there are no physical features on the device. Running dmesg reveals these lines of output, along with a few others, regarding the device /dev/sdc Code:
[10304.701316] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Add. Sense: Write protected I'm out of solutions for this problem, can any of you guys offer any suggestions? |
Update: Just tried using Windows disk management on a friend's Windows PC to delete the partition and I got the following error, "The operation is not supported on removeable media."
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Update
In another forum I posted this thread and they referred me to this, which basically details using fdisk to reformat the drive. No luck there. I also installed and tried "parted" and here's what happened. Code:
root@marcus-laptop:/home/marcus# parted /dev/sdc |
Update
I booted my Windows XP VM and forwarded the device to that, then went into disk management. It doesn't show the unallocated space or the FAT32 partition, but lists the whole drive as a "GPT Protected Partition". All the right click options were grayed out. I'll be doing research on how to get rid of one of those. |
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