[comp] Kingston suck

[mindstalk]

I have a USB stick, Kingston Datatraveler 4GB. I've had it since November. It was never used that much. It has now become "read-only", unwriteable when mounted. There's no hardware toggle to have caused this. This seems a not-uncommon problem, online. Kingston fail.

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[(Anonymous)]

It's a file system error. If you have a machine running Linux handy, run "dosfsk" on it until there are no more errors (may require running it 2 or 3 times). If you're in Windows, you can try running a disk scan (Right click on the drive, go to properties, pick the Tools tab and scan disk), if that fails, a reformatting it should bring it back. If you're using a Mac...there's probably an equivalent, but I don't know it.

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Sweet. You meant 'dosfsck', but running "dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1" (-a for autorepair, /dev/sdb1 being the mount point of my thumb drive, as revealed by 'df', I say for any future Googlers) seems to have fixed it. Thanks, Anon

...and how the heck did you run across my post? No complaint obviously, I'm just surprised.

[(Anonymous)]

Friend of Yani's, just happened to be looking at the Friends page.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

That makes sense, I do that. :p Thank again.