Missing space on Flash drive (USB) - Can't reformat it also I have a flash drive which is given as a freebie. I don't know who manufactured it. It got infected by a virus. I am trying to reformat it but I am always receiving a "Windows was unable to complete the format" message. When I checked its properties, the used space and free space is 0 bytes. On disk management, it says that the flash drive has raw file system with 8mb capacity. The status of the flash drive is "Healthy (Primary Partition)". However, the real capacity of the flash disk is 1gb.  How can I recover the missing space? I tried using diskpart to clean and delete the 8gb partition, then create a new partition hoping that it will fix the problem but to no avail. Until now, I also can't reformat the flash disk. I also tried using BootIce and Active KillDisk, but it also didn't fix the problem. On the other hand, SpaceSniper claims that the location of my flash drive is not a valid path. I also tried using Lexar but the drive letter of my usb won't even appear on its list. Meanwhile, HDD Low Level Format Tool says that my device cannot be accessed because it is smaller than 65535 sectors.  I am already out of options. How can I fix my flash disk? How can I format it and reclaim the missing space? (I am using Windows 7.)  The following are displayed when I used KillDisk:  Name: Generic Flash Disk 2.0  Version: 2.10  Mode LBA: Yes  Cylinders: 1  Tracks per Cylinder: 255  Sectors per Track: 63  Total Sectors: 16384  Bytes per Sector: 512  Total Size: 8.000 MB (8388608 bytes)  (What happened to the other space? Why only 8 bytes can be seen?)
How do I fix my USB drive to get its original 8GB size back? My USB drive used to be originally 8GB when I bought it.  I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting Format.... But the capacity only shows 250MB.  Is there something I can do to get the original size back? Maybe it got partitioned in a weird way?   The  flash drive is a SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB. I got it from Wal-Mart but this is the same drive.
Searching for an equation to find the center of a sphere given 4 points, one finds that taking the determinant of the four (non-coplanar) points together with the variables $x$, $y$, and $z$ arranged like so:  $\left|\begin{array}{ccccc} x^2+y^2+z^2 &amp; x &amp; y&amp;z&amp;1\\ x_1^2 + y_1^2 + z_1^2 &amp; x_1 &amp; y_1 &amp; z_1 &amp; 1\\ x_2^2 + y_2^2 + z_2^2 &amp; x_2 &amp; y_2 &amp; z_2 &amp; 1\\ x_3^2 + y_3^2 + z_3^2 &amp; x_3 &amp; y_3 &amp; z_3 &amp; 1\\ x_4^2 + y_4^2 + z_4^2 &amp; x_4 &amp; y_4 &amp; z_4 &amp; 1\\ \end{array}\right| = 0$   yields the equation for the sphere.  Then one need only re-arrange terms into the more familiar form to find the center and radius.  This works fine.  My question is why.    This same approach also works for one or two dimensions.  I'm guessing it also works for finding hyperspheres in higher-dimensional spaces as long as you have a corresponding number of points.  But where did that determinant form come from?  Is there an intuitive meaning for what that relationship is saying? I've started trying to make a 3D model that I will end up exporting to an augmented reality app but I've hit a problem in terms of the particle system. The app wants the 3D file in .dae(collada) format which blender allows, but it doesn't seem to export particle systems. I've read that blender doesn't support exporting particle systems at all so I'm now focused on converting the particle system to lots of meshes which will (hopefully)animate using key frames. Then I can export all the meshes and the particles will 'work'.  Currently I'm just using a standard particle system emitting small icospheres. I've tried a few different techniques, such as 'make duplicates real' and using a particle instance instead but they don't seem to animate. Instead it just freezes the current frame into an object(which exports fine but is not what I want). I've also tried recording the animation in the blender game engine but particle systems don't work with it so that didn't work either.  Any help would be appreciated! Thanks Today, on C.SE, I reviewed some 'Late Answers' and First Posts.  I was not even near my daily vote limit.  And yet, I was given a message that said      comments disabled on deleted / locked posts / reviews   It seems I was not the only one either:   The workaround, of course, was simply to go back and provide the guidance - but was this a design or a bug?  If it is design, why would you want to discourage the feedback? Especially with first posts, there is often a high percentage of 'didn't read the FAQ' usage, which can best be addressed by gently providing guidance. (e.g. "Unfortunately, this doesn't answer the question" or "This reads like a comment" or "This really isn't on-topic here - can I suggest you checkout our [faq]" etc...)  Timely first post guidance goes a long way towards making good users.   If it was a bug, was other functionality silently rolled out? I recently read this , which stated:     For scientists trying to design a compound that will attach itself to,   and modify, a target disease pathway, the critical first step is to   determine the electronic structure of the molecule. But modeling the   structure of a molecule of an everyday drug such as penicillin, which   has 41 atoms at ground state, requires a classical computer with some   $10^{86}$ bits—more transistors than there are atoms in the observable   universe. Such a machine is a physical impossibility. But for quantum   computers, this type of simulation is well within the realm of   possibility, requiring a processor with 286 quantum bits, or qubits.   Along with this resource estimate for penicillin, I've also seen  of the number of qubits required to model the ground state of caffeine (160 qubits). Given that the above report offers no reference(s) (probably in the name of business intelligence) and much Internet searching and looking into the quantum chemistry literature has come up short, my question is: Where are these resource estimates coming from – is there a journal article that published these numbers? I would really like to identify the methodology and assumptions used in making these estimates. Is there a way to fully stretch one line of text on the full width of the page, without manually setting the letter spacing, no matter how many characters on the line? I have a large dictionary file with 300,000+ words in it and I'm trying to find all words with the vowels aeiou in that order and have only exactly 5 vowels. My current attempt does not seem to be working and for the life of me I don't understand why.  less mywords | grep -iE [^aeiou]*a[^aeiou]*e[^aeiou]*i[^aeiou]*o[^aeiou]*u[^aeiou]*   I think it get's all the words I'm looking for but there are a few words that pop up which I can not get rid of.  abstemiousnesses ultraserious   There are a few other but they are in the same vein. Curiously, even if I add something like [^u]* to the front ultraserious keeping popping back up! Any solution would be fine however I would like it restricted to grep as we've been told it can be done using only grep. Finite Sets, Equal Cardinality, Injective $\iff$ Surjective. How to use find command with wildcard when current directory contains a match? Possible Duplicate:          I'm having some confusion with the find command.  If I type:  find . -name *.xml   or   find ./ -name *.xml   I receive a list of all the xml files in subdirectories of the current directory, UNLESS the current directory contains an xml file, in which case I get:  find: paths must precede expression: foo.xml Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]   What is the correct way to search for files with wildcard when the current directory may contain a match? I think it would be nice to display tags in alphabetical order. Currently, tags are displayed in order of creation.  As a workaround, I remove, and then add the tags, which is a bit dumb, but I like 'em in alphabetical order.  It's probably pretty trivial to implement, and nice to have! Can I concatenate multiple MySQL rows into one field? Using MySQL, I can do something like:  SELECT hobbies FROM peoples_hobbies WHERE person_id = 5;   My Output:  shopping fishing coding   but instead I just want 1 row, 1 col:  Expected Output:  shopping, fishing, coding   The reason is that I'm selecting multiple values from multiple tables, and after all the joins I've got a lot more rows than I'd like.  I've looked for a function on  and it doesn't look like the CONCAT or CONCAT_WS functions accept result sets.  So does anyone here know how to do this? Is it appropriate to use a question mark at the end of a compound sentence where the first independent clause is a question but the second is a statement? For example:     Do you want attribution for that quotation, because I'm definitely sharing it and want to know if I should give you credit?   or      Do you want attribution for that quotation, because I'm definitely sharing it and want to know if I should give you credit.   I suppose this could work, but it's a little niche, as the second clause might not always be appropriate for a parenthetical.     Do you want attribution for that quotation (because I'm definitely sharing it and want to know if I should give you credit)? Functions vs. patterns What is the fate of the Asgardians at the start of Avengers: Infinity War? Thor: Ragnarok ends with the remaining people of Asgard aboard a refugee ship that meets Thanos' ship. Avengers: Infinity War opens with      Thanos and his minions having commandeered the ship and several bodies can be seen on the floor.   This begs the question, what happened to these characters:   Korg Miek Asguardian extra #3 Valkyrie What does this symbol mean? (looks like a 1 with double vertical line) I'm studying a course on probability and statistics and at some point this symbol comes up without introduction. It looks like the number one, but slightly bigger and with a double vertical line.  First time it comes up is when discussing stochastic/random variables that are neither continuous nor discreet in an example:   And somewhat later in a proof:    Anyone got an idea what this symbol represents?  EDIT: Thanks for the fast answers, I was still editing the question for better (larger) images :) table of contents: adding a vertical space In a table of contents that has been generated with LaTeX's \tableofcontents command, I would like to add a vertical space before a Chapter item in the table of contents. One way that I have in my notes is to use  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\vspace{10pt}}   at a desired location in the document so that this gets processed by \tableofcontents to include an appropriate vertical space in the table of contents. I have two questions:   Is the above the correct way to get a vertical space in a table of contents? Why is it necessary to use the \protect command here?   Thank you... What's with the Japanese SO's stats? Block error on CMI I have two identical sites on Drupal 8 (A and B), on (A) I created a custom block(block/add), and then I export the configuration(drush config-export) and import this config on (B) (drush config-import), no error, but on the site (B) the block that I imported said on any region that I put "This block is broken or missing. You may be missing content or you might need to enable the original module." And I cant edit the content of this block. How I can fix that?  Site A:    Site B: Getting an "Authentication token manipulation" error when trying to change my user password I am logging in to my Ubuntu Server using my username. Once I am logged in I am typing passwd command. Entering a new password but a second after getting following error messages:  passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchanged   What is wrong here? How can I change my password otherwise if I don't have access to that server physically, i.e. I am connecting remotely with ssh using terminal. I am rendering my scene with only one sample but all the renders of the same picture have a different seed value. How can I combine them correctly? I wrote a java-program that loads all the images and takes the average pixel color for each pixel of the images. Is that a correct way of combining the images? It doesn't reduce the noise very much so I am not happy with it. What can I do? Find images by size: find / file / awk I've been trying to find png image files a certain height (over 500px).  I know that file will return image dimensions.  Example:    $ file TestImg1a.png  TestImg1a.png: PNG image data, 764 x 200, 4-bit colormap, non-interlaced      But I need to use this to find all files in a directory with a height over 500px.  I know how to print out all files regardless of height:  find . -name '*.png' | xargs file | awk '{print $7 " " $1}'   But how do I limit the $7 to those results greater than 500?