[ale] USB pen drive killed?

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Wed Nov 12 13:47:11 EST 2003


Pete Hardie wrote:
> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
> 
>> I have done some "bad" things to my pen drive.  I went back to windows 
>> and reformatted the pen drive. 
> 
> 
> That was the issue here - I went to a windows box and reformatted the 
> pendrive and all is well, at least at home.  I will try again at work 
> today.
> 
> Is it possible to format a pendrive with mkfs or similar tools?  I'd 
> hate to need a M$ box just to repair bollixed USB drives....

Although I don't have one, I would say you could.  I've formatted zip 
drives and Sony memory sticks from my Linux boxes.  Whenever I'm going 
ot use the memory sticks for my cams, I format them on the cams.


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