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  1. Bug #211760
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 211760

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density (krait) wrote :

For some this problem might be the result of a corrupted MBR + partition table.

I had my USB key formatted with VFAT, which doesn't seem to be a very good choice. After using it a few times only, automount stopped working and fdisk wasn't able to access the partition anymore.

Unless Windows compatibility is required, I suggest formatting the drive with EXT2/EXT3. At least, I never had a problem with that.

I solved the problem with:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{your_USB_device} bs=512 count=1

After that I was able to access the drive again and rebuilt the partition table.