-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: <snip> >> >> - From Linux: >> sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1 > > cfdisk should do: > cfdisk creates partitions, not file systems.
>> I tried to partition it. > >> Name sdb1 >> Flags Boot >> Part Type Primary >> FS Type W95 FAT32 >> [Label] >> Size (MB) 8086.06 > > And you think it did not format to > >> FS Type W95 FAT32? > cfdisk just created a partition and gave it a type, it does not actually create the file system. > Hm? Okay I try # mkfs.vfat /dev/sdb1. > >> - From Windows: >> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> >> ** note that you need to be an administrator to do this. ** >> >> Alternatively you could run Computer Management with admin credentials >> in case you are properly using Windows. >> >> runas /noprofile /user:mydomain\myadminusername "mmc >> %SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s" >> >> For home users mydomain = computer name >> >> In either case, right click on the USB drive (it won't have a drive >> letter yet because there is no file system, yet) and click format. > > It has a drive letter, it's F:\. > Weird. If it still does not work, it might be worth blanking the whole device and starting over (you can use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/usb/dev" to blank the whole usb drive. >> Regardless of the OS you rebuild the USB key on, ** DOUBLE CHECK THAT >> YOU ARE MODIFYING THE CORRECT DEVICE ** This is really important. >> There is no garuntee that the USB stick will always be /dev/sdb or the >> same drive letter in Windows. On Linux you can check by either: >> a) looking in /dev/disk/by-id. Eg. "ls -l /dev/disk/by-id" >> or b) sudo parted /dev/sdb print > > I always checked this before. If the hard disks are connected, I have > one drive with a size of 76GB, another with a size of 298GB and a third > with a size of 8GB and I always only tried to change something for the > drive with the size of 8GB ;). > > I didn't know 'ls -l /dev/disk/by-id', an 'parted /dev/sdb print', by > the way, parted isn't installed to every Linux. If you have gparted you have parted. > >> <snip> >>> The USB stick was active. There was one partition for the stick, >>> yesterday there were 3 "strange" partitions (seen by Windows, not by >>> Linux), maybe something changed by dd or any other Linux command. Trying >>> to format and partition by Windows failed with the error that the USB >>> stick is write protected. >> You may also get that error if you do not have sufficient privledges. >> See above for a possible solution. > > I don't use an user account, I only have an admin account for my Windows. > This is common, you and 90% of all Windows users do this. Of course it is a very bad thing to do, but this is now getting off topic and straying a little too close to my day job. >>> All hard disk drives still were okay. >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <snip> >> >> sudo e2label /dev/<IDE Device>1 >> will print the current partition label >> >> sudo tune2fs -L <new label> /dev/<IDE Device>1 >> will change the label. > > I know tune2fs, but the partition is (partitions are) lost. Instead of > having the partitions #1 (,2#), #5 to #10 there only is one partition, > partition #1. > >>> # gparted only detected one partition on my IDE hard disk drive, but >>> there should be IDE #1 and #5 to #10. >> sudo parted /dev/<IDE Device> print >> What is the output from the above command? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm1V1EACgkQwRXgH3rKGfMBtgCdHd0pUuxpAW60e50203cgAdQq G8IAoILyG4uqGRN8LMKbNMggMilrgExK =jxtR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
