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Low-Level Format For a USB Flash Drive?

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Re:Do niggers use Flash Drives? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You ought to know.

    Likewise, I'll have to ask you if troll-feeding idiots use flash drives.

    If you are too fucking uptight to handle nigger jokes on /., why are you browsing at -1?

  2. Re:Not the flash chip by X0563511 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Learn to fucking read already will you people?

    THIS IS NOT A USB "DRIVE"

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    For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
  3. Re:This worked for me one time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Smooth move commenting out the command...If you're going to simulate the command prompt with a #, don't tell the newb to type it in.