I think u have misunderstood what formatting is!!
Formatting is  creating a filesystem in other words writing a data structure
on the partition


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:45 PM, rohit <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> @harsimran
>
> i think if i just delete and recreate a partition i can format it
> anyway....
>
> anyway mkfs is fine too
>
> On Dec 30, 10:51 pm, "amit kumar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > i believe rohit is write
> >
> > -the same message is given while formatting a damaged sector floppy
> >
> > can you give me some remedial solutions
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Harsimran Walia <
> [email protected]
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > But fdisk is used to partition add and delete drives
> > > To format u need to use mkfs.ntfs for ntfs or mkfs.vfat fir fat
> filesystem
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:12 PM, rohit <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >> u want to open or format??
> >
> > >> to format
> >
> > >> use fdisk or gparted or qtparted whatever suits you...
> >
> > >> maybe file system is corrupted
> >
> > >> On Dec 30, 11:52 am, "amit kumar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> > -my pendive is not opening and neither it is able to format .
> >
> > >> > -it displays the following message when i try to format it "WINDOWS
> WAS
> > >> > UNABLE TO FORMAT THE PENDRIVE "
> >
> > >> > - when opened in LINUX it is not opening ,and in PUPPY LINUX it is
> even
> > >> > undetected .
> >
> > >> > please recommend remedial measures
> >
> > > --
> > > Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU!
> >
> > > Harsimran singh walia
> > > 3rd year, Mechanical Engineering
> > > IIT Delhi
> >
>


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