08-06-2014, 11:00 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-06-2014, 11:10 AM by gold_finger.)
JmaCWQ,
I've been watching this thread from the sidelines curiously waiting to see what problem might have been. At this point, since it appears you have nothing to lose by experimenting, I'm wondering if you might try something else just out of curiosity?
You may have already done this and just not stated it, but if you haven't -- take one of those USBs and use GParted to make a new partition table before trying to reformat it.
* Open GParted, select USB stick and click Device -> Create Partition Table -> msdos -> Apply. (Make sure you have the USB selected and not your hard drive.)
* Make one large FAT32 partition on it.
* Run another experiment transferring some mp3's, etc. and see if the same problems occur.
This is just a long-shot, wild guess at a potential cause of the problem.
Sometimes brand new USBs come with some kind of built-in software pre-loaded on it. What purpose it serves I don't know? But, if it exists it likely does not work in Linux and might be causing the problem. Wiping out the partition table and creating a new one will get rid of that pre-loaded stuff (and everything else on the USB) that might otherwise remain (hidden) if you just reformat the existing partition(s), or if you just delete and re-create partitions. Again, this is just a wild guess -- but who knows? Worth a shot at this point.
P.s. To mark a thread as "SOLVED", modify the title of the very first post in the thread. You'll notice that if you go to main page for Hard Drives and SSD's, your post does not say "Solved". It only shows that on the last post you made. If you change the title of the first post in the thread, it will show up on the main page listing.
I've been watching this thread from the sidelines curiously waiting to see what problem might have been. At this point, since it appears you have nothing to lose by experimenting, I'm wondering if you might try something else just out of curiosity?
You may have already done this and just not stated it, but if you haven't -- take one of those USBs and use GParted to make a new partition table before trying to reformat it.
* Open GParted, select USB stick and click Device -> Create Partition Table -> msdos -> Apply. (Make sure you have the USB selected and not your hard drive.)
* Make one large FAT32 partition on it.
* Run another experiment transferring some mp3's, etc. and see if the same problems occur.
This is just a long-shot, wild guess at a potential cause of the problem.
Sometimes brand new USBs come with some kind of built-in software pre-loaded on it. What purpose it serves I don't know? But, if it exists it likely does not work in Linux and might be causing the problem. Wiping out the partition table and creating a new one will get rid of that pre-loaded stuff (and everything else on the USB) that might otherwise remain (hidden) if you just reformat the existing partition(s), or if you just delete and re-create partitions. Again, this is just a wild guess -- but who knows? Worth a shot at this point.
P.s. To mark a thread as "SOLVED", modify the title of the very first post in the thread. You'll notice that if you go to main page for Hard Drives and SSD's, your post does not say "Solved". It only shows that on the last post you made. If you change the title of the first post in the thread, it will show up on the main page listing.
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