How to format a usb flash drive
Hello,
firstly I am not sure if it's more hardware than software issue. Anyway I have a 512MB flash drive/ radio. I used it to transfer files from a win98 in work to Fedora Core 3/winXP system back home. First the XP stopped to recognise the drive saying it was unformatted. It didn't mind me much since fedora worked fine as win98 also. But then win98 failed and finally fedora also. Now only Suse 10 recognise it but it crashes after a while if I see it with Konqueror. I tried to format it with XP failde, I figured with linux it would be ok if I choose fat32. With mkfs.ext3 all seemed to work but when the process is over nothing has changed. Old data are still on the flash. The same occur with mkfs.fat (or something like that I can't remember whether is fat32 or fat). How could I low level format it. And I guess formatting means lossing all data right. I can't figure why is this happening. My radio now it doesn't work either and just displays "wrong file system" and shuts down. Help for any ideas |
You could use "shred" to completely wipe out the whole disk. Or "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda" would do much the same (Replace /dev/sda with whatever's correct)
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hello! well i am not really an expert but on the page
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/suse9.1_usb_stick.html there was an intro that helped me quite a lot (thanx a lot eric!:p ) you can also have a look which slot was used by the command dmesg: Code:
dmesg hope that helps! cu ede |
Why are you formating the drive with EXT3? You might want to check the partion table using cfdisk or parted.
Try this: parted /dev/sda (or whatever you drive is linked to) (parted) mkfs 1 fat32 Make a fat32 file system on partition 1. |
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