Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Formatting an SD card Date: 16 Jan 2016 21:34:36 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net Gyu9GIy1QzrZZ9hPfHk22wf36p5MmSJHsaU76G4f7aGKccienJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:eZAs8qcAItXldfS76slxLmq/9HQ= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:19717 On 2016-01-16, Chris Whelan wrote: > Huge wrote: > >> Due to a dodgy USB cable, I've managed to corrupt an SD card such that I >> can't recover it. I use a USB card reader to access SD cards from my Mint >> 17 box, but the dodgy cable means that it's created a bunch of files with >> weird names that I can't delete - indeed even if I try it switches the >> device into read-only mode and I have to dismount & remount it to get >> it back to read-write. If I try and format it with disk utility, the >> utility just hangs. If I try and format it with gparted, it says "Scanning >> /dev/sdc1" for ever. >> >> Any suggestions? I'm going to try and format it under OS/X and Windows >> next. > > I've corrupted a few SD cards whilst experimenting with a Raspberry Pi. The > only utility that would make them usable again was Windows.Mac only, I'm > afraid. Not to worry - I have one of each. > > It was this: > > https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/ Thanks, I'll give it a go if plain old vanilla O/S formatting fails. -- Today is Setting Orange, the 33rd day of The Aftermath in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.