liveusb-creator -

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Thu Nov 19 23:54:41 UTC 2009


Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> writes:
>        I think I did essentially the same thing, I used fdisk to
>        reformat the drive as Linux [83] then did mkfs ext3.

Hmm.  Sounds like it should have worked if it was the problem I was
thinking of.

In my case I think I had a bare fat-<something> fs on my stick with no
msdos style partition table.  Some programs could deal, others couldn't.

I'd be tempted to try one last hail mary and clobber the while drive
with a "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd<yourusbdrive> bs=1M".  If anything is
finding a funny pattern and misinterpreting it, that should fix it.
Writing to each sector would also reassign all bad sectors, so that base
would be covered too.

-wolfgang
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