Comment 62 for bug 125702

I just gave it another go, this time using the casper file that Steve sent me over the email. The problem is now fixed completely. (not sure what happened to my patch on casper file, it said it was done successfully)

thank you so much, Steve.

It surprise me how few instances of this problem have been reported on the internet. I suspect that a lot of people sees it as a bad sector problem with their usb drive. I, for one, spent hours doing surface scan, low level format, trying to solve this issue.

If it wasn't for Steve's post on bug 371477, I would never have found this thread and solve this problem.

If this bug occurs in every ubuntu persistent install, then it may be a good idea to give it a bit more attention? the pendrivelinux.com people should make a note of it if the problem does indeed occur everytime.