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On 16/02/2022 10:52, George Parker 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?If you're getting nothing out of dmesg/etc (kernel messages et al) you might find you have to take the thing apart if the USB - disk-controller bridge has croaked. It's quite possible that either a "power supply" issue has 'fused' something or the controller has just given up advertising itself to USB (or a whole host of mechanical/electrical issues like the USB connector too!!).George
If you can tell us the drive model number/data .. and or post a photo link (eg. imgur/etc) then we can drill down deeper.
Best regards, Michael / veremitz.
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