hdd format issue

[bitsnpcs]

Thank You, I have marked as solved, and also bookmarked the thread for future reference.

I have a leafpad file I call it formatting, it's a very important area, I saved the first commands for make fat32 I used for fixing the sd card. I have saved all of the commands used to fix the portable hard drive, and the dd commands and will back it up fresh now.

I seen the files on it and just deleted them, I hadn't realized until I read the info Scott gave me, just how devious the manufacturers are with the hidden files.

The dd version is 8.25, that i have on LL3.2

I used

Code:

man dd

and found in the manual that --version displays it, then done

Code:

dd --version