I think i just nuked a flash drive...

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legendman3
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I think i just nuked a flash drive...

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Okay hi im new to all of this and i got a funny story to tell.

I was following Babystep 1 when i got to the command dd if=boot.bin of=/dev/fd0 i changed it to dd if=boot.bin of=/dev/sdb because i don't have floppies and all i had was my flash drive. What happened was this: http://i.imgur.com/ofl4c.png (you can see that it doesn't detect the device on the right even though its plugged in). =D>

I think i may of just nuked a flash drive by doing that...

Oh as a sidenote is there a way to reverse this? Or do i have a new paperweight?
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Re: I think i just nuked a flash drive...

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Well you did destroy the partition table...
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Re: I think i just nuked a flash drive...

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Nessphoro wrote:Well you did destroy the partition table...
Oh that's not good. Well time to get rid of the evidence.
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Re: I think i just nuked a flash drive...

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Yeah thanks for telling me what exactly was wrong got it back and running pretty quick with that hint. http://i.imgur.com/WseDK.png
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