- Oct 21, 2011
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Problem: Thumbdrive is unreadable to Windows.
My fathers laptop HDD went out, he wanted to use YouTube so i quickly made a Jolicloud boot USB on my 32Gb thumb drive. Think i used unetbootin to do this. I cant remember if we installed it to the Usb drive, but im pretty sure I just kept it as a Live CD (Not sure if if matters to this or not). He used it a couple times until we got the replacement HDD which is all good but now my Usb drive is is a state that i have never seen. I plug this 32Gb drive into my windows 7 Laptop to remove jolicloud but then realize that something is not reading right. Every time i plug it in it tells me i need to format it, so i go to the disk manager in windows and apparently the drive only reads as being 698Mb and has no file system on it. No other partitions are seen or anything.
Lots of confusion here. Anyway i restart my pc and boot back into jolicloud. The jolicloud part still works so apparently the thumb drive isn't corrupted because at this point its on the part of the drive i cant see. My goal here is to remove jolicloud and get my 32Gb back. So i cant see myself doing much inside jolicloud itself as i dont think formatting anything there will actually fix anything.
At this point i decided just to boot a Ubuntu 13.10 live cd. Maybe i can format the USB drive from the Ubuntu live cd and all will be good.....Well Ubuntu isn't even seeing the drive. literally nothing happens when i plug it in. Im a noob still in Linux, i can make my way around the terminal alright and all but i have no clue of the functional equivalents in Ubuntu to things like Device Manager and disk manager in windows.
Any ideas? I can still access the drive while in Jolicloud so not all is lost i guess. Hoping there is a user here that knows some good things.
My fathers laptop HDD went out, he wanted to use YouTube so i quickly made a Jolicloud boot USB on my 32Gb thumb drive. Think i used unetbootin to do this. I cant remember if we installed it to the Usb drive, but im pretty sure I just kept it as a Live CD (Not sure if if matters to this or not). He used it a couple times until we got the replacement HDD which is all good but now my Usb drive is is a state that i have never seen. I plug this 32Gb drive into my windows 7 Laptop to remove jolicloud but then realize that something is not reading right. Every time i plug it in it tells me i need to format it, so i go to the disk manager in windows and apparently the drive only reads as being 698Mb and has no file system on it. No other partitions are seen or anything.
Lots of confusion here. Anyway i restart my pc and boot back into jolicloud. The jolicloud part still works so apparently the thumb drive isn't corrupted because at this point its on the part of the drive i cant see. My goal here is to remove jolicloud and get my 32Gb back. So i cant see myself doing much inside jolicloud itself as i dont think formatting anything there will actually fix anything.
At this point i decided just to boot a Ubuntu 13.10 live cd. Maybe i can format the USB drive from the Ubuntu live cd and all will be good.....Well Ubuntu isn't even seeing the drive. literally nothing happens when i plug it in. Im a noob still in Linux, i can make my way around the terminal alright and all but i have no clue of the functional equivalents in Ubuntu to things like Device Manager and disk manager in windows.
Any ideas? I can still access the drive while in Jolicloud so not all is lost i guess. Hoping there is a user here that knows some good things.
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