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Ashleyyyy
By Ashleyyyy
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i'm having issues with a friend's usb drive. it is a really cheap 8GB drive. 

i borrowed it because my laptop was having some problems and i wanted to reinstall ubuntu on it very quickly. 

 

i plugged it in, tried to format it with gparted and got an input/output error. ever since, i haven't been able to format it. i either get an input/output error or a read only filesystem error. 

 

i did try overwriting it with the dd command, but that gave me a really weird result. it only copies 5.4GB and then the drive according to gparted is 3.8GB in size instead of 8GB. 

there is nothing important on the drive, and if i can't fix it i'll just buy a new one, but yeah.. it isn't mine so i'd like to be able to to give it back in working condition.

She/Her

Phone: OnePlus Nord CE 5G | 128GB | 8GB Ram

Main Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1060 6GB | 32GB Ram
Main Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G | Core i7 3612QM | 16GB

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I'd suggest trying SDFormatter. It fixes most of the drives I've come across with formatting issues. 

 

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

 

EDIT: If none of them fix it, chances are the drive is dead. Not unexpected from cheapo USB drives 

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20 minutes ago, Pangea2017 said:

do have done a read to verrify the writing?

fake usb drives are real.

it was working fine before i plugged it into my laptop. i've seen it work on his laptop. 

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Phone: OnePlus Nord CE 5G | 128GB | 8GB Ram

Main Desktop: Ryzen 5 3600 | GTX 1060 6GB | 32GB Ram
Main Laptop: Acer Aspire V3-771G | Core i7 3612QM | 16GB

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