Fdisk screwup

Jim mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 10 14:06:04 UTC 2009


Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sat, 09 May 2009 13:26:29 -0400
> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>   
>> Definitely what you do before scrapping old drives.
>>     
>
> The trouble is I never scrap drives until they have
> physically stopped working, and it is too late to
> write on them at that point.
>
> I have taken some apart though - almost as good, especially
> after the platters get all scratched, mixed up, and scattered
> around - and you get some really powerful refrigerator
> magnets that way as well :-).
>
>   
For some reason I couldn't get this USB stick to be read properly, on a 
laptop to upgrade a new BIOS .
After I did a repartitioning and setup as a fat16 (fdisk 6), it was 
setup as a fat16 <=32 (fdisk 4) after that It worked great.




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