MasterNetra
March 2nd, 2011, 09:32 PM
For those who find this thread and have a similar problem.
1. Make sure you have the USB drive (or external drive?) plugged in.
2. Unless you don't care make sure all retrievable data is extracted from the device and backed up.
3. With preferably only the device in question connected enter:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M
Replacing the question mark with the appropriate letter. (In most cases like in mine, it was sdb)
4. ???
5. Profit!
Original Message:
While it was trying to move data on my 8GB Drive to make some freespace (for swap),then for seemly no reason at all gparted crashed and now it seems gparted cannot even read the drive at startup without crashing (If the drive is plugged in and it loads or I plug the drive and reload devices for gparted it crashes). Tried using Disk Utility but it just won't apply any changes even if I sudo it... I dunno what else to do... Even booted into windows, and its disk management utility could see it but couldn't do anything with it (the free space).
1. Make sure you have the USB drive (or external drive?) plugged in.
2. Unless you don't care make sure all retrievable data is extracted from the device and backed up.
3. With preferably only the device in question connected enter:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M
Replacing the question mark with the appropriate letter. (In most cases like in mine, it was sdb)
4. ???
5. Profit!
Original Message:
While it was trying to move data on my 8GB Drive to make some freespace (for swap),then for seemly no reason at all gparted crashed and now it seems gparted cannot even read the drive at startup without crashing (If the drive is plugged in and it loads or I plug the drive and reload devices for gparted it crashes). Tried using Disk Utility but it just won't apply any changes even if I sudo it... I dunno what else to do... Even booted into windows, and its disk management utility could see it but couldn't do anything with it (the free space).