And now I buy a new stick, plug it in and it works fine.<br><br>Then, just to see what happens, I plug the old one back in again, and it works absolutely fine.<br><br>Computers make my head hurt!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Wardman</b> <<a href="mailto:paul.wardman@gmail.com">paul.wardman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah, I got the data off it as soon as things started going squiffy. Still, it's a pain!<div><span class="e" id="q_1189e112171acece_1"><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/03/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nicholas Thomas</b> <<a href="mailto:nick@lupine.me.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">nick@lupine.me.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Paul Wardman wrote:<br> > Aha, thanks for that. However, my SATA harddisk also shows up as<br> > /dev/sdaxx, so presumably the USB stick would be a sda bigger than that.<br> ><br> > I've not tried formatting it yet, as my windows 'puter is acting<br>
> weirdly too (damn I'm having the worst luck with PCs these days) --- I<br> > think the PSU is on the way out --- but I'll give it a go next I can.<br> > I'll attempt other sticks when I can, but this is on three different<br>
> machines, one of which, as I said, is the windows machine that can<br> > read it (semi-) ok.<br> ><br> > Paul<br> <br>If you have one SATA drive in your PC (sdax), then future drives will be<br> sdbx, sdcx, etc. The scheme is "drive letter", partition number.<br>
<br> Good luck with it, anyways - USB sticks are stupidly cheap these days,<br> so it's not a huge issue if it is broken. As long as you get your data<br> off it well in advance! :)<br> <br><br> /Nick<br> <br> _______________________________________________<br>
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