Hi, you could try this (assuming /dev/sda is your flash device):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1

cfdisk /dev/sda

mkfs.fat32 /dev/sda1

This should kill the partiontable with dd and create a new empty fat32. Regards, Johannes Am Fr 11.09.2009 08:24 schrieb John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net>:

I bought a Geek Squad 4GB flash drive several years ago. It's one of those that have a 4MB Windows annoy-ware partition and a fat32 partition in the rest.

Except that now it only has the 4MB partition. Neither Windows nor suse see the 4G partition -- not even with fdisk. I googled "flash drive format utility linux", and several subsets of those words, but found no help.

I seem to remember someone saying that I could get rid of the persistent 4M annoyware by doing a dd write of some sort, but I didn't understand it at the time, and now I've lost the reference. I thought this might be a way to recover the 4G, but if the system can't see it, can it write to it?

Before I toss it and buy another, can someone tell me how I might salvage this one?

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