[Nottingham] Deleting virtual CD drive from Western Digital USB HDD

[Simon Sleaford]

Hi Martin

This is the results of the command:

*simon at 106602-1004:~$ ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr**
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  0 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  1 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda1*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  2 2010-09-09 10:54 /dev/sda2*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  5 2010-09-09 10:52 /dev/sda5*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 16 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 17 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sdb1*
*brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 32 2010-09-09 11:09 /dev/sdc*
*brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11,  0 2010-09-09 13:19 /dev/sr0*
*brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11,  1 2010-09-09 12:53 /dev/sr1*
*simon at 106602-1004:~$ *


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.

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.

Like Michael Douglas in Falling Down, "I'm just standing up for my rights as
a consumer". :)

Cheers

Simon



On 9 September 2010 13:15, Martin <martin at ml1.co.uk> wrote:

> On 09/09/10 13:01, Simon Sleaford wrote:
> > Hi Cam
> >
> > Unfortunately not:
> >
> > *simon at 106602-1004:~$ sudo umount /dev/sr1*
> > *simon at 106602-1004:~$ sudo mkfs.vfat /dev/sr1*
> > *mkfs.vfat 3.0.7 (24 Dec 2009)*
> > *mkfs.vfat: unable to open /dev/sr1*
> > *simon at 106602-1004:~$ *
> >
> >
> > I'm stumped.
>
> There's always the old favourite "dd" to nuke the partition table...
>
> But first, best check that what you are seeing really is the HDD and not
> some device firmware generated virtuality...
>
>
> What do you get from:
>
> ls -lh /dev/sd* /dev/sr*
>
> ?
>
>
> Have you got data on the main partition that you do not want to lose?
>
> What's the harddrive make/model?
>
> Is it a HDD or a big (expensive!) SSD?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
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