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    Can I repair my USB thumb drive with Knoppix?

    Not sure if this is even the right section of the forum for this question. I have a Kinston USB thumb drive that I can no longer read or format. Is there a tool in Knoppix that will help me to repair this drive?

    Thanks!

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    What does
    Code:
    fdisk -l
    tell you?

    Your USB stick is *probably* /dev/sda so maybe try this:
    Code:
    mkdosfs /dev/sda1

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    If you go into Qtparted it should find the drive I believe but im not sure and in there you may beable to reformat it

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    what few seem to realie is that flashdisk "wear" that is each time it is read/written to it wears some.
    they only guarantee 10 000 read/writes on the cheaper ones.
    that is if you put/get a file from/to your stick you write that information to the file allocation table/s (fat) when these have been written/read enough times the rest of memory is not accessible as the filesystem does not know where they are located anymore

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    After booting to Knoppix, ran qtparted it asked me to create a new partition table on the drive. I was then able to create a filesystem and format. Both linux and windows recognize it and it shows no errors.

    Thanks to all who helped!!

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