USB stick and some help with it.

[Polytropon]

On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 00:51:45 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> 
> 
> On 2015-08-03 20:18, jd1008 wrote:
> >
> > On 08/03/2015 12:01 PM, Quartz wrote:
> >> Can you do a quick sanity check and see if the stick can be wiped on 
> >> a different machine? Or perhaps the same machine by booting off a 
> >> live linux cd. Being on old flash drive there's a possibility it's 
> >> just up and died due to wear and the problem isn't due to FreeBSD at 
> >> all.
> > I second Quartz's suggestion.
> > Just download a live linux cd, such as:
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014-09-15-EN.iso 
> >
> > along with checksum files:
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014-09-15-EN.iso.md5 
> >
> > http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/knoppix-dvd/KNOPPIX_V7.4.1DVD-2014-09-15-EN.iso.sha1 
> >
> >
> > Once you burn it to dvd, boot it, and use the gui to launch a terminal 
> > (icon for it is at bottom left bar).
> >
> My burner can no longer burn dvds only plain cds.

In this case, might I suggest trying UBCD? As the name
suggests, it's a CD, and it also has Linux partitioning
tools.

You can find the download here:

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

It is a _very_ handy tool for diagnostics and repair.


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