Hi Martin<div><br></div><div>This is the results of the command:</div><div><br></div><div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">simon@106602-1004:~$ ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr*</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda1</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda2</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda5</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb1</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 2010-09-09 11:09 /dev/sdc</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2010-09-09 13:19 /dev/sr0</font></b></div>
<div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sr1</font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">simon@106602-1004:~$ </font></b></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>As you can see it sees it as a cdrom drive but it's actually on Western Digital Passport USB hard drive. I don't really want to flatten the whole drive if I can help it, I keep backups of photos, music etc on there and don't have anywhere to copy it to. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I knows it's only a single gigabyte out of 320GB but I'm a bit annoyed that Western Digital decided that I would like their software in a difficult to remove partition on my drive.</div><div><br>
</div><div>Like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, "I'm just standing up for my rights as a consumer". :)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Simon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 9 September 2010 13:15, Martin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@ml1.co.uk">martin@ml1.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 09/09/10 13:01, Simon Sleaford wrote:<br>
> Hi Cam<br>
><br>
> Unfortunately not:<br>
><br>
> *simon@106602-1004:~$ sudo umount /dev/sr1*<br>
> *simon@106602-1004:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1*<br>
> *mkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)*<br>
> *mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1*<br>
> *simon@106602-1004:~$ *<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm stumped.<br>
<br>
</div>There's always the old favourite "dd" to nuke the partition table...<br>
<br>
But first, best check that what you are seeing really is the HDD and not<br>
some device firmware generated virtuality...<br>
<br>
<br>
What do you get from:<br>
<br>
ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr*<br>
<br>
?<br>
<br>
<br>
Have you got data on the main partition that you do not want to lose?<br>
<br>
What's the harddrive make/model?<br>
<br>
Is it a HDD or a big (expensive!) SSD?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Martin<br>
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