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Offline for_answer

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help ! someone know how to recover...
« on: September 22, 2014, 12:41:08 AM »
Days ago I put TinyCore on my usbkey using 'dd' comand, and had a trial of this distro,
now I cannot use this usbkey anymore, and cannot find a way to format it.  gparted gave error messages and stopped.  The usbkey is recognized as sdc and sdc1,  there are two folders in sdc which I cannot remove
them. Please tell me a correct way to overcome this, good guys here !
English is my foreign, sorry for mistakes

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: help ! someone know how to recover...
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2014, 04:24:29 PM »
gparted log might be of use
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Offline gerald_clark

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Re: help ! someone know how to recover...
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2014, 04:27:13 PM »
I suspect you have the drive mounted.

Offline core-user

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Re: help ! someone know how to recover...
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2014, 02:19:37 AM »
WARNING - this will blank your disk - make sure your device is /dev/sdc before running it.

From a terminal
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dd if=/dev/zero of=dev/sdc bs=512 count=1
(You will then need to create a new partition & filesystem on it.)
« Last Edit: November 14, 2014, 02:21:15 AM by core-user »
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