How to remove a damaged file

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 23 April 2008 15:58, Todd Denniston wrote:
>
> Is it a SanDisk??? I ask because they have some weird junk on their sticks
> that you need to use MS to remove and it alternately looks like a partition
> or a second disk when you plug it in.
>
> DON'T delete the partitions until after removing the tool!
>
No, it's a DaneElec

> "Can I remove U3 technology from my USB drive?"
> http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1450#Q13
> or "U3 Launchpad Removal Tool"
> http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
>
> As for just reformatting the partition that is there I would suggest three
> things: 1) read `man mkdosfs`
> 2) consider just doing a raw RW badblocks run against the device... 

How do you do that?

> if it 
> comes up with a lot, you may want to just "<plonk>" the thing in the
> circular file. (after hitting it with a hammer a few times. :)

It might come to that :-)

> 3) because you have IO problems and a big disk
> mkdosfs -c -F 32 -v /dev/devicepartition
>
For this one I'd rather have an ext3 partition, if I can't recover it.

Anne