[SOLVED] Weird behaviour after formatting USB installation media

Hi, I have noticed this weird behaviour with USB drives I used to install Arch linux with. I format them using fdisk and mkntfs but after replugging them in, the udevil daemon mounts them again as ARCH_2013...[something] and even the directory tree exists! This happens also when I use mkntfs without the -f flag (initializing with zeros). I also checked the other files in /dev/sd* in order to make sure that my drive does not appear twice, but there is only sda (my HD) and sdd (or sometimes sdb, sdc,...) which must be the USB drive, also according to dmesg.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I wrote something about not seeing any files when manually mounting but that was my bad, I only tried mounting /dev/sdb1 but mounting /dev/sdb brought me the same files as devmon showed.
Last edited by ysetdng (2014-07-12 22:36:46)

I am assuming you used dd to write the image to the disk. You can use it to remove the contents of the disk as well.
You should make use of the arch wiki, it is quite helpful.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … tion_Media
You can use this to zero out the entire device:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx bs=8M // x is the letter assigned to the usb drive. Be careful, The dd command is destructive.
It may take a while to zero out the entire disk, depending on the size. After that use fdisk/cfdisk or gdisk/cgdisk to create the partition table and partition.
To create the filesystem type, this one, ext4:
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdx // or create a vfat
then create the label:
# e2label /dev/sdx1 USB_STICK_LABEL
Use my suggestion as a last resort. Read the wiki, most of what I have said is in there anyway.
Last edited by rgb-one (2014-07-12 18:21:18)

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SB Audigy 2NX USB - Sound distorted and interrupted after format

Salve,
due to some softwareproblems i had to format my hd, and reinstall my windows.
some specs first:
win xp prof, sp2, intel p4 2,2 desknote motherboard, sis vga, sis onboard sound
usb devices: ta 33 usb router, wacom intuos 3 and soundblaster audigy 2 nx
the funny thing is - before i formated, the sb worked well, i had no trouble.
then i got my graphic tablet - and it didn?t work properly - the pc chrashed every time i used the tablet. installing sp2 solved the prob, and sb and tablet worked well togehter.
i installed the system again, and first my onboard chips drivers were installed. i can't deaktivate them in the bios - so they are loaded, no matter if you want to or not.
then i connected the sb again, and the sound plays clean - but only on two speakers.
after installing the drivers, the sound was interrupted, or had some distortion.
i tried to deaktivate the onboar chip, but it didn?t solve the problem.
after installing my tablet - the sound got worse, and the mouse cursor often lagged or stucked. so i thought it could be a driver problem, or irq conflict. in installed sp2 again, but this time it did not fix anything.
i tried all i knew - deaktivate acpi, reinstall drivers, cleaning registry, re install and so on. then i calles the tech support - he gave me hints, i already tried, and gave me a alink for the webupdate drivers. i downed and istalled them - but still the same problems. i uninstalled my usb controllers, disconnected all other usb hardware, i even changed through all 4 ports - but the problem stayed. after 3 days i decided to format again - but - tadaaaa -it was useless. i still have the same problem - now one week is over and i?m fed up with this. i need my soundcard for making music, and playing dj sets....and i?m running out of time - so please - if anyone has an idea, i would be very glad.
i found out the distortion depends on cpu usage, but also changing the parameters of the hardwares, soundchip- and blasters accelaration did not help. dxdiag said it'ss all fine
with my system.
greetings,
psycho mantis,
germany

hi,
well i could fix the problem.
first i downloaded updates for my board and all the chips on it, and windows sp2 and so on...
but nothin worked. the problem was caused by the ir port. i disabled ir support in the bios, and then it worked fine. there was an interrupt channel conflict. now everything is fine

[SOLVED] Weird behaviour after formatting USB installation media

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