Formatting a USB Stick...
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Formatting a USB Stick...
...sounds simple...
BUT...
This is the stick that I mentioned some time ago that one of my wife's colleagues got hold of and possibly did something unmentionable to it in a Mac.
Having given up trying to get anything useful off it, I have discovered I can't reformat it either!
Linux (Ubuntu KK) just ignores it completely and Windows 7 tells me it needs to be reformatted but when I tell it to continue it tells me the stick is read-only - however, this stick doesn't have a lock on it to make it read-only - so I'm stumped.
Anybody know a way of making Windows (7) force a format on a stick that can't be (physically) read-only - Google throws up lots of hits, none of which seem to be particularly useful.
Cheers,
DH
BUT...
This is the stick that I mentioned some time ago that one of my wife's colleagues got hold of and possibly did something unmentionable to it in a Mac.
Having given up trying to get anything useful off it, I have discovered I can't reformat it either!
Linux (Ubuntu KK) just ignores it completely and Windows 7 tells me it needs to be reformatted but when I tell it to continue it tells me the stick is read-only - however, this stick doesn't have a lock on it to make it read-only - so I'm stumped.
Anybody know a way of making Windows (7) force a format on a stick that can't be (physically) read-only - Google throws up lots of hits, none of which seem to be particularly useful.
Cheers,
DH
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Sadly not - USB sticks are flash memory, nothing magnetic there...
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You never know, DH may have one at work....!Smivs wrote:Detonate a small Thermonuclear device. Works a treatADCK wrote:hmm anyone know how to create a small Electro-Magnetic Pulse, that'll fry even a flash drive
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I've not had access to any Plutonium since I stopped working at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. (and that was a pretty small amount - only 236GBq source).
Anyway, this is all over the top for a £10 memory stick...
Anyway, this is all over the top for a £10 memory stick...
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They usually survive that, well seem to remember seeing that on Click a couple of years ago!Griff wrote:drive over it once or twice with your canteen tank!
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I don't have access to a mac and I'm not giving it back to the person who screwed it up in the first place...snork wrote:not this one :Anyway, this is all over the top for a £10 memory stick...Ahruman wrote:I suggest using a Mac to format it as FAT.
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I suspect it’s actually broken anyway. Breaking it is easier than accidentally reformatting it.
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Ahruman wrote:I suspect it’s actually broken anyway. Breaking it is easier than accidentally reformatting it.
Alas, I suspect you're correct.
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