[SOLVED] Trouble with new USB

[Alex]

Just to be sure I know exactly what has happened, are you saying that you re-ran dd command (with fixed "bs=4K") and it only took 16 minutes?

Yes I re-ran the corrected dd command and it was finished in 16 minutes

The GParted pic you posted -- is that what it looked like after zeroing out?  Or did you add that FAT32 partition to it yourself?

I followed your instructions. These were: to repartition the drive using Gparted after zeroing. I used fat32 to make it compatible with Win.

As far as your error message goes, can you tell us exactly how you are trying to mount the drive?  What are the exact steps you're trying?

I plug in the drive

It shows up on the desk top



I right click on it

I left click on the "mount volume"



Immediately I get the error message shown a few times above

I also get the same error message if I left click on the "open"

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Sorry to say -- I'm stumped!

EDIT:  Can you plug in the USB, open Thunar file manager and look to see if it shows up under "/mnt"?  If yes, see if you can save something to it.

Aside from not knowing how/why your prior pic was showing that the USB was mounted at "/mnt" instead of "/media/alex", steps you just listed look fine and it should be working.

Can you open GParted and do Device -> Create Partition Table -> "msdos"; then make a new FAT32 partition that covers whole disk?

If not, maybe try one last time to zero it out with dd.

If still no luck, maybe you just got unlucky and ended up with a dud USB.

[Alex]

EDIT:  Can you plug in the USB, open Thunar file manager and look to see if it shows up under "/mnt"?  If yes, see if you can save something to it.

Yes it shows up under /mnt:



But when I try to save something e'g' a tex document it does not let me:




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Can you open GParted and do Device -> Create Partition Table -> "msdos"; then make a new FAT32 partition that covers whole disk?

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Yes:



But it still does not work. 

I have researched the problem online a bit and it seems that problems between Lexar USBs and Linux are not uncommon, but i do not think that is the problem here as the USB worked untill I fiddled with it - I feel that I somehow removed the part of it that tells any (it now wont even work with Windows - I tried it on my daughter's computer - it does not even 'see' it!) computer how to store data on the USB (is that the USB 'booting' software?).

I think that I should be doing something like is described in this article:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8366

But I can hardly understand 1/2 of what he is talking about! LOL

[N4RPS]

Hello!

The article is 9 1/2 years old, and, given today's larger drives, may or may not still be relevant...

73 DE N4RPS
Rob