Thread: Resetting kindle does nothing
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Old 11-27-2019, 11:57 AM   #21
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
It should be no riskier than following frequently given advice for when windows claims the device storage is corrupt and offers to repair it. usual advice in these forums is to say YES to that offer.
Embedded devices often are very particular about the format of partitions they export as USB mass storage. Consumer OSes have a nasty habit of deciding anything they don't recognize as corrupted and offering to format it. Since I have often formatted a drive with a linux partition, I always respond with NO to any unsolicited offer to format.
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
but if the device we are discussing is broken in that the flash drive cannot be written to, then format is going to fail just like reset does?
If you do a format and the files are still there, that is pretty definitive that the flash memory has failed and is likely mounted readonly internal to the kindle.
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