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Re: Recover zonked USB sticks

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From Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info>
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Subject Re: Recover zonked USB sticks
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Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> writes:

>> Perhaps I should add that while a # df -k command tells me the device is
>> /dev/sdb, the kernel can't see it ($ dmsg does not report it).
>
> If "df -k" tells you that the device is /dev/sdb it means that you have
> mounted the device, you would not have been able to mount it without the
> kernel to see it.
>
> When the device is mounted you should not try to alter the partition table
> or the file system.

Sorry, should have made clearer that I unmounted the stick before
issuing the cfdisk command. 

It turns our that zeroing the first partition as suggested did the
trick.

Haines

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Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-05 11:37 -0500
  Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2011-12-05 12:24 -0500
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-06 13:03 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2011-12-06 16:01 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Henrik Carlqvist <Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com> - 2011-12-06 23:13 +0100
        Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 10:42 -0500
  Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-12-06 19:29 +0000
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 10:39 -0500
    Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Haines Brown <haines@HistoricalMaterialism.info> - 2011-12-07 12:13 -0500
      Re: Recover zonked USB sticks Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2011-12-07 17:25 +0000

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