Are you trying to clean it (save/restore files) or wipe it (destroy contents)?
If it's the latter, use dd dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 12:19:34PM +0300, byekwaso wilson wrote: > Hi Guys, > Hope your all good. A user handed to me a flash disk like a week ago > it had a virus and he asked me to help them clean it out, but I cannot > delete anything on it from my Linux box and so from a Windoze machine, > it tells me the flashdisk is read only. It doesnt have read only > switch a(i have checked more than once to confirm this and confirmed > with the owner as well). I tried formatting it from the terminal as > root but no luck either it still told me its Read-only. I have googled > and got some Windoze tools said to solve such a problem but none of > them has worked so now i throw it over you. Any ideas?? If it helps > the Flash disk is a Transcend. > > Regards > > > > -- > Wilson > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > -- Simon Sekidde gpg: 98A6 8D22 578C FFCE F6F8 FC80 94D4 2451 1E8B 049D _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
