murder_face Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Has anyone else killed their flashdrive installing Katana on it? Everything seemed to be going fine, next thing I know I'm having a bunch of errors so I cancelled out of everything and wanted to start over. Now my flash drive is read-only. Tried editing fstab and pretty much everything else I could google. Nothing worked. When I mount the drive in windows the label is "portableapps.com". I figure it's probably because I used a cheap-o drive, but thought I would ask if anyone had similar problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01000010 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Do you have a sandisk flash drive? Did you purchase it in the last 9 months? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murder_face Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Do you have a sandisk flash drive? Did you purchase it in the last 9 months? No, it's an hp 165r 16gb. It looks like it's actually manufactured by PNY though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
01000010 Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 hhmm well i know sandisk had an issue a bit back. I have a bad PNY one -- i would just call them / rma it. the should send you out a new one pretty easily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murder_face Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 hhmm well i know sandisk had an issue a bit back. I have a bad PNY one -- i would just call them / rma it. the should send you out a new one pretty easily I figure after the holidays I will send it in, for now I just went and bought another one. They are on sale for $9 so it doesn't hurt too bad. I just think it's weird that installing katana on it killed it. I used to keep backtrack on it and had no problems. The only bit of progress I have been able to make is with fsck.vfat and even after I try to repair it says "filesystem unchanged" /PortableApps/ClamWinPortable Contains a free cluster (1026232). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/DefaultData Contains a free cluster (1026062). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/readme.txt Contains a free cluster (1026066). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/readme.txt File size is 171 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip Contains a free cluster (1026067). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/7z.dll Contains a free cluster (1025920). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/7z.dll File size is 1422336 bytes, cluster chain length is 434176 bytes. Truncating file to 434176 bytes./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/descript.ion Contains a free cluster (1026041). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/descript.ion File size is 333 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/7z.sfx Contains a free cluster (1026042). Assuming EOF./PortableApps/7-ZipPortable/App/7-Zip64/7z.sfx File size is 162816 bytes, cluster chain length is 0 bytes. Truncating file to 0 bytes.Free cluster summary wrong (1373793 vs. really 1373997)[/CODE] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murder_face Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 If anyone is interested, I exchanged my flash drive today for an identical one, and it worked this time. Still had some weird issues. For some reason I couldn't run bootinstall.sh in linux. I tried changing ownership and permissions. In the end I had to fire up XP in virtualbox and run bootinstall.bat to get it to work. I'm not sure if it matters, but I didn't follow the exact instructions when I killed the first flash drive, or the second time when it worked. Rather than extracting straight to the flash drive the first time I just copy and pasted in gnome. The second time I used "mv" from the terminal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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