i need remedial measures , not just knowlege about formatting On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:55 PM, Harsimran Walia <[email protected] > wrote:
> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Join the next generation of computing, Open Source, and Linux/GNU! > > Harsimran singh walia > 3rd year, Mechanical Engineering > IIT Delhi > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd mailing list -- group http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
