Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive?

Posted by timothy on Friday May 28, 2010 @12:51PM from the back-from-the-living-dead dept.

Luyseyal writes "I unwittingly bought one of these terrible flash cards at Fry's and have managed to nuke two of them, successively. I have a USB flash card reader that will read/write the current one at USB 1.0 speed, but it locks up every Ubuntu and XP machine I've come across in high-speed access mode. I have read that if I low-level format it that it could be fixed, though my current one doesn't support it. My Google-fu must be weak because I cannot seem to find a USB flash reader that specifies that it will do low-level formatting." Can anyone offer advice for resurrecting such drives?

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Re:Not the flash chip by X0563511 · 2010-05-28 13:34 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Learn to fucking read already will you people?
THIS IS NOT A USB "DRIVE"

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