Re: [opensuse] Recover a flash drive?

Johannes Müller-Lahn wrote:

Hi,

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

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

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cfdisk /dev/sda

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mkfs.fat32 /dev/sda1

This should kill the partiontable with dd and create a new empty fat32.

Thanks, Johannes, this worked to get my 4G back. The 4M garbage partition is still there; I suspect it's in a hard ROM rather than in flash. But I do have the 4G, and I've transferred files to and from it successfully. Thanks again, John Perry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org