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I am using a 4 GB Strontium pen drive.

Once at a time I tried to use it like a bootable flash drive, but it was error. Then I tried to format it in Ubuntu. It said that cannot mount. Then I tried to format it from disk utility, it was also failure.

Then I just plugged the device to Windows 7. At first Windows shows format complete, but when I just copy a file and re-plugged device it shows it must be formatted. I tried to format into fat, fat32, exfat etc. and also tried cmd, hp tools, gnome format. Again and again it was failure. Ubuntu is saying that cannot create fat filesystem.

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What will I do? I know you will help me. Please!

Sonny Bass
2011-05-06 19:07:00
You could try Parted Magic http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=partedmagicDownload the ISO file, burn to a CD, then boot from the live CD. In my opinion this is the best partition tool available.
2011-05-06 17:29:00
Have you used in on another computer?try to format with this toolhttp://www.box.net/shared/9hgp81ndgsAlso HP format toolhttp://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml