On 4/12/2013 11:23 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
Before you do that, did you try using the tool mentioned in the Ubuntu thread to remove unwanted firmware partitions, if any? If not, you may want to format the entire thing with an HP legacy formatting tool.¹ I've used it successfully in the past to reclaim full functionality from such stubborn vendor-locked storage devices that won't let you manipulate them with standard tools. Worth a try, I say. ¹ http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Form... -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 I hadn't.
The frustration on that thread is pretty intense, and apparently for good reason. The tool ran, looked for all the world like it had done something, but then when I got back to the Arch Linux wiki entry, I got the same error. Gee, this is frustrating. Is this the new thing, now, that you can't use thumb drives--apparently any thumb drives--to boot a system?