Thanks people, was afraid it might be something like that. I tried the hardware reset, but although initially it seemed to be working the unit is clearly unable to write to the drive. So back it goes in return for a different specimen of same. Which, I hope, does work properly.
Update: tried dosfsck under Ubuntu but no sigar.
Last edited by iljajj; 02-27-2013 at 06:15 AM.
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