Ubuntu and GParted works magic with your corrupted pen drive

Few months back I thought of installing and ruining a ChromiumOS from my 8GB Transcend pen drive. So I downloaded the OS image from this site http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/ .The image was around 250 MB and it required 4GB to install. The instructions to install it was also mentioned in that site.

I had windows so I chose to install it through Windows Image Writer tool, as instructed in the site. The tool warned me that any unintentional misuse may corrupt my drive. Anyway I proceeded and I installed the image in to the drive. Then I restarted the PC to boot from the pen drive. But when booting no bootable image was available in the pen drive. After several tries I gave up and booted in to Windows to erase the image in the pen drive and thereafter problem occurred. My computer could not recognize the pen drive. I tried a whole variety of tools like Partition Magic, HP Disk Format Utility, etc but in vain all of them pointed out that my pen drive has no drive letter assigned to it. Again I tried to heal the pen drive from Windows in-built Disk Management utility. No success. I searched the web for solutions but no one with similar problem was able to recover the drive, so I almost thrown the drive to garbage.

Recently my windows corrupted so I switched to Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot 11.10. Its a nice OS for new users but the linux fan followings hate it for its new Unity Desktop interface. Anyway I wanted to try it for a while. Yesterday I thought of seeing what happens when I plug my corrupted pen drive with new OS. Will Ubuntu detect it? Yes it detected. I was even able to copy files to and from the pen drive. But one last thing, my pen drive's file-system was highly fragmented like the Mesoamerican countries (one big 5GB partition like Mexico and others were like Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Guatemala,etc. 8MB each). I heard of Gparted utility, which will be freely available for download from Ubuntu Software Center. So I installed it, selected the drive to partition and selected to format the entire 8GB with ntfs. Finally I was able to resurrect my pen drive.

To format a drive, in menubar go to Gparted>Devices and select the drive you want to format.

If you don't have a Linux installed in your PC, you should try it with Live CD. GParted doesn't ship with Ubuntu, so you could use Live CDs of Linux Mint or some other Linux Distros. I am not sure explore it yourself the jungle is wide open.

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