Can I repair my USB thumb drive with Knoppix?

**MaldiGola** · 09-04-2004, 09:35 PM

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!

**mzilikazi** · 09-05-2004, 02:18 AM

What does

Code:

fdisk -l

tell you?

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

Code:

mkdosfs /dev/sda1

**Quite** · 09-05-2004, 02:22 AM

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

**OErjan** · 09-05-2004, 10:11 AM

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

**MaldiGola** · 09-05-2004, 03:51 PM

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!!