MHR wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert > Nichols<rnicholsNOSPAM at comcast.net> wrote: >> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to >> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize >> the full 8029470208 bytes. >> > > I was able to do that. > > Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads," 32 s/t > and 99212 "cylinders." > > Now the question becomes, if I try that on the Sandisk, will it trash > the drive altogether, or would I still be able to use it, or would > that fail because there really isn't that much space on the "drive?" The first thing I do with every USB flash drive I buy is figure out a geometry that uses all of the sectors reported by fdisk (I have a shell script that does that in a pretty much brute force way.) and then repartition and re-format the drive using that geometry. I've never experienced any problem with that. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.