Don't try to format a partition of the usb

[twister]

Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

[Grand_Voyageur]

 
Really bad luck. However, You should have kept your coin wallets in a USB device you used only for them (to avoid the need for partitioning/formatting the device). Also, You should consider to have an additional USB device to back-up the primary one who store your coins.
It's very sad you have to learn it the hard way.

[Braedo]

I say really goodluck, Imagine if you had of done this with a drive full of BTC

[sgk]

Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

$10 is not a very big amount to learn a good lesson, so you should consider yourself lucky.
You're lucky you didn't have a BTC wallet in there, just some alt-coins.

I usually keep a separate USB drive for storing my wallets and do not use it for anything else - they're not costly anyway.

If you have time and you're inclined to, there are some recovery softwares that let you recover data from formatted storage media. Just google.

[e1ghtSpace]

It formatted the whole drive?

What program did you use?
Diskpart?

[Buffer Overflow]

When you say formating, do you mean you tried to put a fresh file system on one partition and inadvertently messed up another partition your coins were on?

[Foxpup]

It formatted the whole drive?

What program did you use?
Diskpart?

I'm guessing Windows Explorer.



Do not ever click Yes to this dialog. Nothing good will come of it. Yes, it will blow away all other partitions on the disk. No, you don't get a warning.

[noobtrader]

cant you recover the partition ?

i think those files can be retrieved, if it was just a format.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/31450/tool-for-recovering-deleted-data-from-a-flash-drive

[HeroCat]

Of course it is very clear - do not try to format drive - you will loose all data 

[noobtrader]

Of course it is very clear - do not try to format drive - you will loose all data  

 i once accidentally dd command to my external harddisk when i try to dd to a (broken) flashdisk... so i got myself external harddisk 1T read as 8G  its worse than formatted harddisk, i run photorec aaand i can recover some data... from it.

so im sure if its quick format it will not overwrite old data and those data can be retrieved

moral of the story:  df -ah before dd

[LiteCoinGuy]

Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

wow, that was a cheap lesson 

[twister]

Really bad luck. However, You should have kept your coin wallets in a USB device you used only for them (to avoid the need for partitioning/formatting the device). Also, You should consider to have an additional USB device to back-up the primary one who store your coins.
It's very sad you have to learn it the hard way.

Yeah, got 2 extra usb's yesterday. Lesson learned hard is a lesson learned well.

I say really goodluck, Imagine if you had of done this with a drive full of BTC

$10 is not a very big amount to learn a good lesson, so you should consider yourself lucky.
You're lucky you didn't have a BTC wallet in there, just some alt-coins.

I usually keep a separate USB drive for storing my wallets and do not use it for anything else - they're not costly anyway.

If you have time and you're inclined to, there are some recovery softwares that let you recover data from formatted storage media. Just google.

Yeah, I am an idiot for trying to use the other partition of that usb, thankfully all my btc wallets are in 2 other usbs and on paper wallet as well.

[twister]

It formatted the whole drive?

What program did you use?
Diskpart?

Startup Disk Creator

When you say formating, do you mean you tried to put a fresh file system on one partition and inadvertently messed up another partition your coins were on?

Bingo.

cant you recover the partition ?

i think those files can be retrieved, if it was just a format.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/31450/tool-for-recovering-deleted-data-from-a-flash-drive

I didn't thought of that but I don't know if I can do it now since I added other data to it.

Because it will format the whole drive. I learned this last night while I tried to do just that and I lost some alt-coin paperwallets.pdfs that I was planning to print out later, roughly around $10.

So learn from my mistake and I'll try to do the same.

wow, that was a cheap lesson 

Yeah but it was a sorta project that I had going, trying to put some alt-coins away in-case they go up in future. Don't even feel like starting again.

[Vod]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

[twister]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

Yeah, tried to format one partition of usb, should've used Gparted but went ahead with startup disc creator and it wiped the whole thing clean.

[Vod]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

Yeah, tried to format one partition of usb, should've used Gparted but went ahead with startup disc creator and it wiped the whole thing clean.

lol.  We all make mistakes.  When I was your age, I probably took apart a 1.2MB large floppy to try and make it double sided. 

[Buffer Overflow]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

If you have a device on /dev/sda, with say two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, it would be possible to just format a single one with the command "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2" for example.
Don't know how to do it on Window though.

[twister]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

Yeah, tried to format one partition of usb, should've used Gparted but went ahead with startup disc creator and it wiped the whole thing clean.

lol.  We all make mistakes.  When I was your age, I probably took apart a 1.2MB large floppy to try and make it double sided. 

Well I am an idiot, as soon as I clicked erase, the both partitions unmounted and I knew then and there that I have fucked up and the next second they came back as one partition. And apart from wallets it had so much data, all gone.

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

If you have a device on /dev/sda, with say two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, it would be possible to just format a single one with the command "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2" for example.
Don't know how to do it on Window though.

I don't do it through command but normally I am sane enough to use Gparted which works pretty well but I thought SDC will only erase the current selected partition but I was wrong. Learned it the hard way.

[Buffer Overflow]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

If you have a device on /dev/sda, with say two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, it would be possible to just format a single one with the command "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2" for example.
Don't know how to do it on Window though.

I don't do it through command but normally I am sane enough to use Gparted which works pretty well but I thought SDC will only erase the current selected partition but I was wrong. Learned it the hard way.

Gparted is a good tool if your not comfortable using the command line. You can format individual partitions using that. /dev/sdc means the whole drive, /dev/sdc1, sdc2, sdc3..... are the individual partitions.

[e1ghtSpace]

Because it will format the whole drive.

You tried to format part of a drive?   I've been MCSE certified for 15 years, and I've never heard of that!

Yeah, tried to format one partition of usb, should've used Gparted but went ahead with startup disc creator and it wiped the whole thing clean.

lol.  We all make mistakes.  When I was your age, I probably took apart a 1.2MB large floppy to try and make it double sided. 

I don't exactly know what you mean by that but when I was little, I used to stack 2 dvds on top of eachother and think that after the first movie the second movie would play.