Flash drive--invalid partition table

[dougmack]

I most humbly apologize. What I thought we were working with was a 128 GB Kingston 200 flash drive.  (I don't know why I mentioned 64 at
one point along the way.) What we were really working with was an external rotating machine that I forgot was connected. It seems there is something
seriously wrong with the Kingston.  It doesn't even register on either of two Linux computers, altho it shows up on my Windows machine. (Is there any
way to make Linux see that flash drive?)

So I guess that there is a problem with the external hard disk, and I'd like to fix that, if possible--maybe writing all zeros to it? Please give me the command
to write all zeros to the entire drive in hopes that that will fix it. But I won't use that for backup.

I have another Kingston 128G flash, brand new, and pclos sees it fine. I'd like to backup the machine to that. I'd like to backup the XP partition and the Linux
partitions, altho the XP doesn't really have anything of consequence on it.
 
/dev/sda1              62G   19G   44G  30% /media/Windows
/dev/sda5              69G  8.5G   57G  14% /
/dev/sda6             198G   18G  181G   9% /home

So, since I'm starting from scratch, I'll take your suggestions.

Once again, I'm sorry I wasted everybody's time with the drive I forgot. 

--doug

--doug




I don't know what the none and the gvfs-fuse-daemon entries mean.

[Just17]

Please post a copy of the terminal output from

fdisk -l

as O-P asked, including the command line.

[dougmack]

Don't know what you're looking for, Just--when I still had the external hard drive on line, I did post the output.  My post of 2:07:03.  I would like to fix that drive,
if possible. But right now, I'm going to try once again--this time with a working flash drive--to make a backup.

--doug

[Just17]

Don't know what you're looking for, Just--when I still had the external hard drive on line, I did post the output.  My post of 2:07:03.  I would like to fix that drive,
if possible. But right now, I'm going to try once again--this time with a working flash drive--to make a backup.

--doug

What we are looking for the the output of the command both I and O-P asked for .......  not the command you referred to in your previous post .....  the output of this command

fdisk -l

[dougmack]

OK.  There's only the main hard disk, nothing else connected.  Here's the screen:

[doug@Linux1 ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a43e9

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   129525759    64761856    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2       129527748   976768064   423620158+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5       129532095   272896154    71682030   83  Linux
/dev/sda6       278528000   693811199   207641600   83  Linux
/dev/sda7       693813248   693846015       16384   82  Linux swap / Solaris

--doug

[Just17]

Thank you - now we know what the internal disk looks like!