[iyonix-support] Re: Name Disc

In message <4f729c6362richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Richard Darby <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In article <4f728a414cRichard.Torrens@xxxxxxx>,
>    Richard Torrens (lists) <RichardTorrens@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Would naming a USB pen drive delete the directory?

>> I just renamed a drive (which had been removed without dismounting - thus
>> giving an 'Ambiguous disc name' error). On looking at it, it was
>> apparently blank.

>> Unfortunately it was my 11 yr old son's homework (originated in Word) so
>> had been plugged into rather more than the Iyonix.

>> I can think of no way of retrieving the files!

> Have you tried plugging it into a Windows machine,  I seem to remember
> that this may have helped when this happened to me.

> Have you tried !ROFS ?  (not available when this happened to me)

> When this happened to me I had to reformat the pen drive (it came with a
> Windows management program), I then named the empty drive on the Iyonix
> and swore never to rename the drive again.  This seems to have worked OK
> ever since.

> Richard Darby.

Have you tried a complete power off (unplug for 30 seconds) to make it 
forget ambiguous name.

Chris


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