Error 5 writing to usb drive

[smooth]

SOLVED, re-launching roadkil and repeating eventually resulted in a successful write!


I get the following disk error when trying to write the image ext3 to my usb drive: "Error #5 occurred writing to disk at sector 0"

The USB flash drive is a 1GB Kingston Traveller, Freshly formatted in fat 32, windows explorer has read/write access without error.

When I examine the drive after attempting to write the image it shows as being a 23.3Mb FAT drive which i believe is intended however there do not appear to be any files at all visible from explorer and Roadkil's progress bar doesnt shift.

Any suggestions?

[paul2463]

can someone let me know what the disk file structure should look like after a successful write, or is it a linux file system that windows will not be able to read?

[naroekie]

Yes it writes a ext3 file system which windows can't read nativaly. Might be able to read it with macdrive installed or do a cd boot into linux

[paul2463]

Naroekie
once again thanks I was wondering why Roadkill still recognised the drive as 256Mb drive but windows keeps telling me it needs formatting.

Paul

[btsimonh]

problems writing to the stick? Error 5 on sector zero? try LockDismount.exe...

LockDismount0100.zip

[mudiya]

I'm stuck where it starts. I cannot write to the USB Stick as it's coming up with this error. Tried two different usb sticks. man it's driving me mad that I can;t even begin the first step

[baldrick45]

mudiya

Use the prog lockdismount (Google it - now up to ver 0.300). Win Vista/ Win 7 access drives in a different way to XP preventing Roadkill's prog from accessing the USB stick in the way it needs to.

LockDismount forces the OS to release it for ext3.img file to be written cleanly.

baldrick45