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Borked Flash Drive..

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Well I know it isn't ruined, but I just dd'd the newest DSL onto my 4GB flash drive. The problem is, I without thinking copied it right over the partition table and now the flash drive shows up named "KNOPPIX" and says it is locked. Even after using gparted to completely erase it AND create a new file system several times over, it is still named KNOPPIX, and locked. Any ideas? I have erased the flash drive a couple times and created a new partition table, then formatted to FAT16 yet it's not totally wiping the drive. (HowTos)

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Submitted by bolly on 08/19/2012

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Do this:sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1024k count=1Where X is the letter of the USB flash drive/hard drive that you want its partition tables totally erased.Be sure to type the correct letter, otherwise you might erase your system hard drive and lose data!Afterwards, be sure to reboot the PC and then check out if Gparted shows the capacity correctly.

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