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Hi, i tried install arch linux in my pendrive (because my harddisk is broken), the setup was fail, but some archives of arch continued in my pendrive, now i dont can format this in nowhere (windows, arch cfdisk, slackware cfdisk, gparted of ubuntu live cd, hp format tool...), all says of this is "write-protected", and this dont have a switch.
Help, please, and sorry for my english.
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You can't write it over even with a dd with root?
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Plug in the drive, and immediately do a dmesg | tail -40 and see what the kernel has to say when you connect the drive. Feel free to post the output if it does not make sense to you.
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Plug in the drive, and immediately do a dmesg | tail -40 and see what the kernel has to say when you connect the drive. Feel free to post the output if it does not make sense to you.
I could make this, but my hard disk is broken, i have only acess of a computer of my job, i can use the ubuntu livecd, and the pendrive work "fine", (partitions ext3), i acess 2 partitions, but i can write in here (i try in root, and in gparted).
Thank you for the attention, and i wait solve this.
(sorry my bad english again)
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You should be able to carry out ewaller's instructions from a livecd.
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