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Esai
September 17th, 2011, 08:55 PM
Hello, I tried formating my usb flash drive in windows and it got stuck in the end... After waiting for about 20 minutes I disconnected it ;( When I replugged it I was told to format it... So I tried formating it again and it gave me an error that my drive is write protected... I guessed that it just didn't format it correctly which should be pretty obvious... So I fired up my B|T4 r1 and tried 'sudo fdisk /dev/sdc' got a message:

You will not be able to write the partition table. Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0xd8c68ffb. Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable. Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite) so I typed w and it answered: Unable to write /dev/sdc
Raw data in partition table:

0x000: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x010: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x020: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x030: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x040: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x050: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x060: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x070: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x080: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x090: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x100: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x110: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x120: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x130: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x140: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x150: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x160: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x170: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x180: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x190: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1A0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1B0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 28 D7 3D 12 00 00 00 00
0x1C0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1D0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1E0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x1F0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 55 AA

ajgreeny
September 17th, 2011, 09:12 PM
Try gparted in a live CD if necessary, or you can install it in a Ubuntu installation and use it for unmounted non-system partitions.

For your usb drive choose Device, Create partition table, and make an ms-dos partition table. You should then be able to make a new fat32, or any other filesystem type partition that you want on the disk.

Esai
September 17th, 2011, 09:54 PM
Try gparted in a live CD if necessary, or you can install it in a Ubuntu installation and use it for unmounted non-system partitions.

For your usb drive choose Device, Create partition table, and make an ms-dos partition table. You should then be able to make a new fat32, or any other filesystem type partition that you want on the disk.

I already tried gparted and it doesn't show up over there :(

Esai
September 18th, 2011, 02:04 PM
Anyone?
I really need it.....