Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-22 Thread Martin
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 07:48:27AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hdparm --help -r Get/set device readonly flag (DANGEROUS to set) I suspect that the USB stick can't be repaired anymore. I was hoping not to get this diagnose :( But thank you anyway. You might be

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-22 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Therefore I am starting to belive that stick can be broken after all :) Nevertheless I will wait for some time expecting that somebody had experienced something similar and can give me some other advice than to throw away that stick. Martin Bye Hi! Did you try testdisk? Nice tool, maybe

Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread twpim-www
Hello, I have a small USB disc (16G) that worked perfectly until now. Now I am unable to perform any changes to this disc. No creating new diroctories/files, no deleting, no formating ... It has only one partition which formated as vfat filesystem. Apparently it got some virus from Windows when

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Josef Bailey
On 09/21, twpim-...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hello, So for now I can not use that USB stick for anything. Can you give me any advice how to repair that disc? Thanks Martin Hello Martin You should download gparted and burn it to disc then boot it (Gparted)

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-09-21 at 23:11 +0200, twpim-...@yahoo.com.au wrote: - on Windows box original folders are not visiable only newly created executable files are showed with icon as folders and without .exe extension It's normal for default settings, that Windows doesn't show extensions. Maybe

Re: Can not format USB drive

2013-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: As root run hdparm -r0 /dev/sd? where ? is for a, b, c ... z, IOW the number of your USB stick. ^^ ^^^ :D [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ hdparm --help -r Get/set device readonly flag (DANGEROUS to set) I suspect that the USB stick can't be