Thanks a lot for your quick and clear answer, I´ll try.

2011/2/13 Curtis Gedak <ged...@gmail.com>

> On 11-02-13 03:43 AM, Carlos Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
>
>> Thanks, is there anything I can do for using that Flashdrive with parted
>> or is it impossible?
>>
>
> Carlos,
>
> I can see at least two possible solutions:
>
> OPTION A)
>
> One work-around is as follows:
>
> 1) Copy any data you have on this disk device to another disk device
>
> 2) Erase the invalid MSDOS partition table.
>
> The Master Boot Record exists on the first sector of the disk device and
> also contains the partition table. To erase the MBR (and all data on the
> disk device), use a command such as:
>
>    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/path-to-disk-device bs=512 count=1
>
> Where: /path-to-disk-device is something like /dev/sde
>
> CAUTION: Be sure to type in the above command correctly since it will
> completely erase the partition table!!!
>
> 3) Write a new MSDOS partition table to the disk device using gparted,
> parted, fdisk, or another partition editor.
>
> 4) Proceed to create partitions on the disk device and restore your data.
>
>
> OPTION B)
>
> Try the patch created by Phillip Susi.
>
> Phillip has created a patch which is posted in the following mailing list
> post:
>
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2011-February/003805.html
>
> Please note that this patch is new and might not have been extensively
> tested yet.
>
> Regards,
> Curtis
>
>
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