Guest DepJones Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 I have an Imation 1gb usb drive I am trying to access in Mandriva. The drive shows up fine being automatically, but it is only showing me 2.4mb of the drive where the disk management app for the drive resides. Anyone know how to be able to see the rest of the drive in Mandriva? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmc77 Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 Just bought a Sony thumb drive and had a similar problem the first time I plugged it in. Just reformatted to fat 16 and problem was fixed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 2, 2006 Report Share Posted March 2, 2006 What shows up if you type on a root console cfdisk /dev/sda (assuming that sda is your pen drive)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest DepJones Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 What shows up if you type on a root consolecfdisk /dev/sda (assuming that sda is your pen drive)... If I leave the drive in the usb port at boot it picks up automatically. If not, I have to mount it manually and I get this message when I do, "mount: block device /dev/sda1 is write-protected, mounting read-only" After mounting the device I tried your suggestion with cfdisk and get this error" FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition begins after end-of-disk Press any key to exit cfdisk " BTW, the hardware button on the drive is set to write mode. ls -l provides this output, "total 1384 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1413270 Apr 29 2005 Imation Disk Manager III.exe" Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 I had this error on my actual hard disk partitions once, and I ended up removing all of them and starting again. If you don't have anything on the disk itself you want to keep, you can redo the partition on it, and then format it accordingly, either as FAT32/VFAT or as ext2, ext3, etc, etc for sole use with Linux. As a side note, if you want to repartition it, you can do this: fdisk /dev/sda p (will list partitions) d (will delete partition) w (will save and exit) then go back in again, and create: fdisk /dev/sda n (create new partition) p (choose primary) 1 (partition 1) enter to accept defaults for one single max partition w now, you need to give a filesystem: mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 and that should do the trick. If you want to keep what's on the disk, copy off first before doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 You shouldn't use cfdisk on a mounted partition- umount it first. Instead cfdisk you can also use parted/qtparted, again as root. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted March 4, 2006 Report Share Posted March 4, 2006 Do you have some sort of password protection on the drive? I ran into some problems with one recently because of that. Another screwy thing when I put mine in is that what is seen when I open the "devices" icon it shows only the system junk, not my files. If I browse to where I have mounted it all is as clear as day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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