Re: [LUG] USB stick does not display

[Eion MacDonald <maceion@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 30/03/2019 12:53, Neil wrote:
> On 29/03/2019 23:06, mr meowski wrote:
>>
>> Neil further to this can you try a few of your (faulty) USB devices and
>> post the output of:
>>
>> sudo parted /dev/sdX print
>>
>> for each one after you've plugged it in? Change "sdX" to whatever as
>> appropriate - it would be /dev/sdb in your example above.
>>
>> For comparison include the output of 'sudo parted /dev/sda print' which
>> will show the details of your main system drive.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
> 
> Some results
> 
> Model: Lexar JumpDrive (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 3951MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
> 
> Number  Start  End  Size  Type  File system  Flags
> 
> Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
> Model: Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 7864MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: unknown
> Disk Flags:
> neilwin @ /home/neilwin 30 Mar 2019 >
> 
> some of them have this
> Error: Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/sdb.
> 
> which to me means something wrong with the stick.
> 
> here is another one
> Error: /dev/sdb: unrecognised disk label
> Model: Kingston DT 101 II (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sdb: 8006MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: unknown
> Disk Flags:
> 
> And here is the result for sda
> 
> Model: ATA OCZ-TRION150 (scsi)
> Disk /dev/sda: 240GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> Disk Flags:
> 
> Number  Start   End    Size    Type      File system     Flags
>  1      1049kB  223GB  223GB   primary   ext4            boot
>  2      223GB   240GB  16.8GB  extended
>  5      223GB   240GB  16.8GB  logical   linux-swap(v1)
> 
> Does not mean much to me,
> 
> Neil
> 


Elsewhere I find an answer as

 may be worth running testdisk over the device, it sounds like your
partition table may have gone pop. Testdisk should be able to recover
your data.


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regards
Eion MacDonald

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