Did I just brick my thumb-drive?

mooney

Hello Experts.



I just got Knox and was testing it out with a new vault (reformat volume as encrypted vault) on a usb thumb drive. The vault created fine, but I made the erroneous assumption that I could store the password in the 1Password agile keychain. Since this integration is apparently not yet available, and I overwrote my clipboard contents inadvertently, I ended up with a vault to which that password was randomly generated, but not stored. Whoops.



So I decided to start fresh and delete the vault-- but now I can't locate it in disk utility to reformat it and start over.

How can I reformat the encrypted thumb drive? Maybe with some command line gymnastics?



Please help.



Thanks,

Pat

MartyS

Hello, Pat, and welcome to the forums!



Did you create that random password using 1Password? If so then you may be able to find it in your Generated Passwords section of the 1Password sidebar.

mooney

Found a tip at macosxhints: [url]http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070306150736965[/url]



did a diff on ls /dev/ with and w/o thumb drive in. was indeed special device "disk1" should should verify this yourself before running the command below. Be sure you're erasing the right disk!



terminal command/parameters where drivename is the name of the volume you wish to create:

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ drivename disk1



Thanks.

Nik

Glad to hear you got it sorted out, Pat, thanks for the update!