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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 icannotthinkofaname · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    How does an AC browse at -1?

    He logs in and checks the "Post Anonymously" box.

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