Re: [LUG] USB drives

[Mark Thurston <mark@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dmesg and fdisk will give you more information on what is or isn't happening.

Depending on what has happened, you may need to recreate the partition table using cfdisk and then reformat the partitions using mkfs

On 16 February 2022 10:52:13 GMT, George Parker <georgeparker20@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have been trying to use usb drives lately. One a usb 500 gb ssd drive 
for backing up and one a 64 gb micro sd card for use in an Android 
tablet, and I have borked both of them. Total value £36 so not a 
disaster. But I can't find a way to reformat them in spite of extensive 
googling and that is extremely annoying. There must be some way of 
forcing a basic format of these drives. Gparted won't touch them, msusb 
does nothing and various command line methods have done nothing. A lot 
of methods concentrate on getting data back but I don't want to do that. 
I just want them in a state to get data onto them. Any ideas anybody?

George


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