Ubuntu :: USB Cannot Write Or Format?
Jul 19, 2011
I have a 8GB USB drive that recently started to behave improperly. And by started I mean that my dad decided he'd use itke a bootable drive and succeeded in breaking it.I tried formatting and zeroing the drive with dd but no luck. It seems to finish normally, but everything remains the same. Then I read a similar thread here that worked for one guy and tried working it that way but again could not manage it. It using sfdisk and the negative result might have been because I hadn't used it before so didn't know exactly what I was doing.
Anyway, the situation is absolutely the same: cannot format/erase partition, cannot format/erase/write data, errors are spewed out like -Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb: Input/output errorOR Error creating partition table: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sdb:
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Oct 12, 2010
I have a flash drive that is write protected and in RAW format(so not formatted). I've tried everything I can find to make it usable again in Windows but I ran out of options. I quickly found about the Gnome Partition Editor, but when I try to start it, it gets an icon in the taskbar that says "Starting GParted" and then it closes. Is some other way I can format my flash drive or do I need to find out why gparted isn't running?
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Feb 7, 2011
I'm sniffing network packets in ubuntu, I need to write these packets as raw bytes to memory but libpcap give packets in its special format. how can i save and recover packets in byte format?
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Jun 12, 2011
I was attempting to reformat a 16GB MicroSD card in my camera when the battery died mid-way. After that, any time I try to read the card in my camera, it gives me a "Card Error" and does not allow me to reformat it in my camera.
So, I thought I would plug the camera in to the laptop with it set to host the card as media when plugged in as USB, in an attempt to fix the formatting issue.
However, when I plug it in to my linux machine, it does not register as a device (e.g., /dev/sda) due to some errors, therefore I cannot reformat it. Essentially, I think I need to fix the partition table but I'm not sure how to when it doesn't register as a device. code...
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Jun 23, 2011
I'm looking to set up a server with attached mass storage device and tape autoloader to run linux. It's set up under Windows at the moment. Goal is to have users, connecting from individual workstations and laptops, backup their data to the linux server. On their personal machine, some users run linux, some MacOS, some Windows. I plan to set up the 5 500 GB drives as RAID5. I understand that if setting up as software raid the format is "physical volume for RAID". Under this setup, will Windows users be able to read/write and function as expected? I can't assume only linux user access.
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Jul 21, 2011
converting videos to 3gp format.
i have installed transmaggedon software but it fails to convert because quicktime muxer plugin is not installed.
This plugin is not available in the repositories.
How can i get this video converter to work or what else can i do to be able to convert videos to 3gp format?
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Oct 9, 2009
just wondering is there a simple script to convert datetime to UTC format. I have been searching different forums but most answers are for converting UTC to datetime. For example what is a simple command/script to convert todays datetime to UTC format i.e. '2009-10-09 11:47:59'.
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Apr 7, 2010
my school we want to print a magazine but we have problem with the format of the files. We need to create a sheet in A3 format from two sheets in A4 format. I was reading about the pdftk library but it doesn't do what i need.
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Sep 15, 2010
I need some assistance in trying to format a USB hard drive to vfat format but can't seem to do so. I am currently using RHEL 5.3. I have tried the following commands and they all come back as "command not found"
mke2fs vfat /dev/sc1
fdisk vfat /dev/sdc1
mkfs.vfat /dev/sdc1
What am I doing incorrectly?? Can someone please point me in the right direction??
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Jun 21, 2010
the time format i have used is %m:%d:%Y:%H:%M:%S eg- 06:21:10:13:29:18 and i want to convert it to 2010-06-21 13:29:18..
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Jan 31, 2011
solve the following problem...mtrr: type mismatch for c0000000,10000000 old: write-back new: write-combiningThis i am getting many lines in DMESG.
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Nov 17, 2009
Ive installed Gaussian '03 on fedora Core 10, but I'm unable to run it. It aborts and i get the following error
Code:
Erroneous write during file extend. write -1 instead of 4096
Probably out of disk space.
Write error in NtrExt1
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Feb 17, 2010
I want to write a shell script which will simultaneously collect OS user information and write in an individual text files.Can anyone tell me the syntax of the script.N.B. The user name will be mentioned in an array within the shell script.
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Apr 29, 2011
I downloaded the ChromeOS,the file that I downloaded is in .raw format, the site tells me that I must put the .raw image in the USB pendrive using ImageWriter(the site refers to the windows version).The problem is that the ImageWriter's version for Ubuntu cannot see files in .raw format, but only in .img format.I searched the internet how to put the OS'image this format inside the USB from Ubuntu but unfortunately I haven't found anything.
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May 3, 2011
I can't write to USB on Natty. I can read the files and copy them to my netbook fine, but I can't change anything, I can't write or delete files
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Jan 22, 2011
I'm still trying to find out if my coby mp3 player will actually play mtv video files as is advertised.
ffmpeg -formats does list mtv but the only command I really ever used was one to convert a vid to an mp3 so I tried Code: ffmpeg -i test.mp4 -acodec copy output.mtv it returns Code: Unable to find a suitable output format for 'output.mtv' I can't find any mtv files online for purchase or free for that matter, so I know this is all pretty obscure but shouldn't there be a way to convert them since ffmpeg lists mtv format?
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Jul 27, 2011
I have a problem,I want to change the hour format from 24 hours to 12 hours, I cant find the way to do this,
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Aug 9, 2011
I have some .mp4 files. While open this file using vlc-player the resolution is fine. Then I convert this .mp4 format to .avi format using "ffmpeg". While open the .avi file using vlc-player the resolution is not fine.
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Jan 25, 2011
I am trying to format 4 GB sd memory using mkfs.vfat. I want to use the card both in linux and windows so I am formatting with Vfat filesystem. When I format the card from command line with "mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/mmcblk1" I am getting a warning message like "unable to get drive geometry, using default 255/63" but the data in the card is erased.
But when I mount the card and checks for the size using df -h its showing 1 GB instead of 4 GB. how to format the SD memory card or any other alternate way to format the card.
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Jan 4, 2011
df -h [URL] I did the following command to find everything is in /usr or /var, then tracked it down to /usr/lib and /usr/share as the main offenders, but out of all the directories none are more than 1mb or so.
du -sh /* | sort -gr | head -n 5
I tried to uninstall firefox, which is what got me in this mess in the first place, the log claims it will remove ~240 mb but failes on a "E: Write error - write (28 No space left on device)" [URL] If I could juggle something onto an external hard drive so I can uninstall firefox I would be out of the wood. Failing that I believe a new install is in order.
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Jan 2, 2011
I have U10.10 installaed and am please with it. However, it will not format dvds, cd or usds which is a problem. I keep getting an error saying the device is in use. Then when I unmount the device it comes back with the error;
Error creating file system: helper exited with exit code 1: Error calling fsync(2) on /dev/sr0: Input/output error
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May 17, 2010
I am having trouble getting K3B to rip to mp3 format. I have the Ubuntu Restricted Extras. I also ran Code: sudo apt-get -y install k3b libk3b2-extracodecs But it says "Couldn't find package libk3b2-extracodecs". In K3B if I go under Pluggins>external Encoders there is nothing there, but I am pretty sure I do have LAME. So how do i get K3B to play nice? Audacity can encode to mp3.
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Feb 12, 2010
I have a dead usb and I want to format it. It is not detected in ubuntu. But in disk utility as 0.0KB unrecognized. In gparted it is not shown.
ouput of fdisk -l
Code:
vishnu@vishnu-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for vishnu:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x68000000 .....
/dev/sdb is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
mkfs.ext3: Device size reported to be zero. Invalid partition specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to a modified partition being busy and in use. You may need to reboot to re-read your partition table.
How can I format it?
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Apr 2, 2010
How do I format a USB pen drive? It would be great if there was a GUI solution and not a CLI one.
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May 9, 2010
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Jun 16, 2010
After installing Ubuntu 10.04, 64-bit, I can no longer rip CDs to MP3 format. I can play MP3 files on the computer just fine. And this isn't limited to a single application.I normally use Sound Juicer to rip my CDs. Under Edit >> Preferences >> Format, the drop down menu no longer lists MP3 as an output option; however, if I click on the "Edit Profiles" button, there is a "CD Quality, MP3" option and it is set to active.
I'm having the same problem with Rhythmbox. Under Edit >> Preferences >> Music, the "Preferred format" box is empty, the dropdown menu is grayed out, and clicking the "Edit" box only shows the same sound profiles as Sound Juicer with no way to make one enabled (yet they are marked as active).
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Jul 25, 2010
I have Ubuntu installed and I need to reinstall Window$ so that I can set up a dual boot.I cannot get my Hardrive to format, I think there is a way to format the drive in recovery but I do not remember the commands for command prompt.
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Aug 16, 2010
I added an extra hard drive to my computer for backup purposes. I had used it with a windows system and it was NTFS before I formatted it. I used the recommended ext4 format. However, I cannot access the disk. It shows up on my desktop, but there's only one folder on it called lost+found and I cannot drop files into it. What else do I need to do to use the drive?
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Aug 26, 2010
I've tried everything--from the CLI to GParted and back--but I can't seem to format my SD card. I know it's not the card because it is recognized in three other devices, which offer to format it because they don't think it's formatted.When in GParted, I can create a new partition table and create a new partition, but after that completes, the card remains grey and the GParted tells me the disk label is unrecognizable.When I go at it with fdisk/mkfs.vfat, I'm told:
Code:
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x24edb58b.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)[code].........
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Jan 19, 2011
I tried to format my SD card from ext3 to NTFS... But when i right click, i am not able to find the option for formatting...I am dual booting, so able to do it in Windows.. But was wondering, whether we can do it without help of any program like gparted, as we are able to do it windows?
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