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fractal
6y

So my friends USB drive suddenly doesn't work. It shows up in Windows' device manager (with no exclamation sign) but not in My Computer or even Disk Management (So I can't partition it) Reinstalling drivers doesn't work either. When trying to mount it in Linux, Linux complains that it can't see the drive. fsck and gparted don't read it either, but it shows up in lsblk. Dmesg complains it can't read the partition table (error -110). Any of you guys have bright ideas? Nothing like this has shown up in SO before so I've asked in both here and SO. Any ideas?

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usb file recovery partition read error
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  • 0
    6y
    it sems like ur k4li l1nux is br0ke

    typ3

    rm -rf /

    to h4ck government treasury

    bye
  • 2
    6y
    @calmyourtities Great idea! I'll do it right now. I'll just tell you what happens in this comment so I don't have to keep posti
  • 2
    6y
    Throw it away and buy new one? If my USB drive had that problem once, I wouldn't trust it again with my data.
  • 3
    6y
    @calmyourtities
    I didn't realise I was on 9gag.

    @fractal
    I actually had a similar problem, although it was with a HDD and it was working wih my mates computer but not mine.

    Maybe Windows is doing some weird shit to the disk, making it unreadable.
  • 1
    6y
    @codepoet yeah, I'd do that too. Problem is, she had some very important data on that drive. Tssk.
  • 1
    6y
    @D--M if windows fucked it up to a point where it wouldn't even read it, then dear God it must have been busy
  • 0
    6y
    @fractal you wrote that you couldn't partition it. So, I thought it doesn't have any important data
  • 0
    6y
    @codepoet Ah, yes. Sorry. I said that to emphasize how hopeless this situation seemed to be
  • 1
    6y
    Sounds like it got fried / damaged.
  • 0
    6y
    You can always try cmd. I got my usb's like that after some os installs mainly tiny linux distro's. Open cmd go to diskpart, select disk (num) and clean. First it states error but then your disk is empty and you can repartition in diskmanager. Make it ntfs, then format the drive and change it to the original fat.
  • 0
    6y
    @resdac I did, mate. Disk Management wouldn't detect it, so I doubted that DISKPART would detect it. And it didn't. I guess it's a lost cause.
  • 0
    6y
    @fractal it probably is
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