eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I guess you can say i got a little bit carried away with my partitioning and whatever and I started playing with my 4gb sd card and I decided to try a cool program called Qtparted, I hear its a more laid back method for reformating and repartitioning. Anyway... My problem, please if anyony can help me by maybe sending me a link? my problem is exactly that i had mistakenly closed qtparted after deleting my partitions and forgot to unmount the device, the prompt displayed along the lines of imroperly umounted the device may be corrupt . The reslult now is when I select the drive in windows it say PLEASE INSERT DISK, and no drive appears when using linux either. Can someone please tell me the name of a recovery disk for my sd partition or maybe mbr, i dunno? (also instead of a card reader i was using my psp.) My 4gb sd is unrecognized. Can somebody possibly point me in the right direction. Thanks in advanced eeeeeesy? I think not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Have you tried creating a new partition on it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Have you tried creating a new partition on it? i cant even get that far, because for backtrack its says dev not in fstab and in wiindows my PSP shows up as drive e:\ but i click it and it says please insert disk in drive e:\ and it does not show in disk management. is my card useless now? If i where able to find an OS that would show me my SD was corrupt or something then atleast i would know it was recognized and could go from there. but nothing to show me its corrupt. My sd just isnt there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Seems like you tried to mount it in backtrack which won't work if it didn't have a partition on it. Try opening it with fdisk and create a new partition table. Most of the instructions here should be followable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 it had partitions at first but i deleted them while i was in backtrack using qtparted and then i closed it and shutdown forgetting to unmount which is what causing this mess. By the way I appresciate your help, thank you I use an eeepc 900 and i think i remember something like no dev in fstab, but ill try though, how shal the commands be like? /dev/sdb/ for usb port? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 I use an eeepc 900 and i think i remember something like no dev in fstab, but ill try though, how shal the commands be like? /dev/sdb/ for usb port? Depends, it might be if it's the only other storage device attached other than the OS disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 If you do an fdisk -l (preceded by sudo, if needed) that will tell you all the partitions and whatnot, and what the devices are named. Best bet would probably be to boot into a gparted livecd and recreate the partition on that sdcard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 If you do an fdisk -l (preceded by sudo, if needed) that will tell you all the partitions and whatnot, and what the devices are named. Best bet would probably be to boot into a gparted livecd and recreate the partition on that sdcard. ya i guesss like i was saying im sure it wont show any other device. ill try fdisk though so 1 sec i must turn on my eepc with backtrack and see EDIT: shoooooot. no its not there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 i think my usb dev should be sdd i had deleted sdd1 and sdd2, closed qtparted without unmount, powered off, and my usb/sd device became unreadable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 What all is listed? Could you post the output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 What all is listed? Could you post the output? i cant give the output because im using two different machines at the moment. but dev sdd is not here anymore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Gotcha. Best bet would probably be to just get another SD card, if the current one isn't even showing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 d'oh! no money :( and it was new :( :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Could try returning it saying that it's not working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 d'oh! no money :( and it was new :( :( sudo lshw -C disk shows me my psp as /dev/sdc/ physical id=0 i try to mount /dev/sdc/ mount: no mediums found Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Try to mount /dev/sdc1 and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Try to mount /dev/sdc1 and see what happens. mount: can't find /dev/sdc1/ in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Try running this then: sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mountpoint Doubt it would work, but it's worth a shot I suppose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 Try running this then: sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mountpoint Doubt it would work, but it's worth a shot I suppose. mount point /mountpoint does not exist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 Lol, you've gotta mount it to a folder that exists. I usually use /media/cdrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 mount point /mountpoint does not exist im doing a google search to see what i find for mount: can't find /dev/sdc1/ in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab qtparted maybe it will help EDIT: I dont want to try creating a new fstab entry because im sure a different sd card will work but im not letting 4gb go to waste so easily so ill keep looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 It just means that mount doesn't know the file system of the device or the mountpoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 yes but if i use the name qtparted at the end of my google search then i might find a post where somone has a similar problem. right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles Posted January 24, 2010 Share Posted January 24, 2010 You might. Good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeeeeesy Posted January 24, 2010 Author Share Posted January 24, 2010 You might. Good point. do you think this will work? the Moblin Live Image | moblin.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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