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I've given up on the drive - thanks for the replies.

In my case fdisk doesn't find the SSD, whereas gdisk does.

Using the above command, I get: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Vendor: KingSpec Product: Z3-2TB Revision: 1214 Compliance: SPC-4 LU is fully provisioned Logical Unit id: 0x3044564198838738 Serial number: DD564198838738C7 Device...

Thanks 'Brickwizard' The smartctl command gives: dev/sdb: Unknown USB bridge [0x0578:0x0578 (0x1214)] Please specify device type with the -d option. lsusb gives: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0578:0578 Intrinsix Corp. Z3-2TB which is not listed in the 'd' options of smartctl.

There seems to be an MBR - on start up of gdisk I get: GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.8 Problem reading disk in BasicMBRData::ReadMBRData()! Warning! Read error 22; strange behavior now likely! Warning! Read error 22; strange behavior now likely! Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not...

smartctl doesn't find the USB SSD.

Thanks for the reply 'arochester'. The thread on superuser looks interesting and relevant (though old). I'll pursue my problem over there. Jim

A couple of years ago I had a power cut whilst formatting (IIRC) a new 2TB USB SSD.rawer. I assumed it was 'bricked' without hope of recovery, and put it in a drawer. I recently decided to dig it out and see if I could get it working. After using a 'power cycling' technique, I can now get it...