Path: csiph.com!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 22:55:24 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net 5S/xyAty9DGcOv9Q7FBI6QVPXkiyP2eDGMUqWl3QuMu8O19VgX Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ZFLsu/K7WKHFWrRhOmIp3+bhDY= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:19720 On 2016-01-16, Jim Price wrote: > On 16/01/16 20:44, 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. > > Fill it with zeros using dd, put a new partition table on it with > gparted then try and format it. Nice idea - I shall file that away for next time, thanks! -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 16th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.