On Friday 04 Jan 2013 20:27:38 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 07:16:51PM +0000, Mick wrote > > > Thanks James, no luck with parted either. It'll see the old vfat > > partition in there, but it will not delete it, reformat it on in > > any way change it. > > > > Different MSWindows tools also fail to operate on it. > > Under the heading of "grasping-for-straws"... does it have a physical > write-protect switch? If such a switch was engaged, that would explain > things.
Hi Walter, No, it doesn't, but just in case it had some virtual lock I tried (successfully) to run 'hdparm -L 0 /dev/sdb'. It did not make a difference. -- Regards, Mick
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