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| Author: | longlife [ February 25th, 2019, 11:03 ] |
| Post subject: | 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vol |
I have a 4GB verbatim pendrive, while formatting in Windows or thru SDCardformatter5, giving error in 98%- can i reduce the volume to 3GB. |
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| Author: | data-medics [ February 25th, 2019, 15:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vo |
Why bother? You can probably get a new one for $3, or maybe even for free from some PC shop who gives them out as promotional items. Certainly isn't worth my time trying to explain how to even attempt something like that. I can't imagine how it's worth your time. |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ February 25th, 2019, 18:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vo |
ICBW, but you could create 2 partitions in Linux, and Windows would then only see the first partition. |
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| Author: | HaQue [ February 25th, 2019, 21:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vo |
I would reduce the volume to 0GB. With a sledgehammer. |
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| Author: | longlife [ February 25th, 2019, 21:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vo |
Thanks FZABKAR, for the suggestion. |
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| Author: | fzabkar [ February 25th, 2019, 22:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 4GB verbatim pendrive, error in 98%- can i reduce the vo |
I would think that wear levelling would eventually thwart any attempt to avoid a bad area of NAND. Just because there may be bad cells at the 98% LBA mark doesn't necessarily mean that the physically adjacent cells, which may be potentially bad, occupy adjacent LBAs. |
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