Problem with USB Thumb Drive Formatting

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Mon Feb 29 11:12:00 UTC 2016


On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 02:57 -0800, Keith wrote:
> I have a USB thumb drive that I can not create a new partition table to 
> or format. [...] The drive is 8GB not 29GB.

For the price of an 8GB thumb drive, don't waste hours of your life.

Unless you can fix this in a few minutes with a simple command, throw
the thing away.

If the drive is new, get your money back.

Regards, K.

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