Hi,
Recently one of my USB Drives became unreadable according to GParted. None of the partitions show up and it doesn't mount to Ubuntu Desktop 20.10. I've tried all the command line tools under the sun that I know of but nothing, the partition table "writes", but never mounts. I reload the tool and guess what: the partition table is none existent.
Tools I've used:
-fdisk
-mkfs
-cfdisk
-GParted (doesn't do anything, just informs me that it's unreadable even after writing new partition table.)
When I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/sda -I
it told me that attribute "partition" not found
Any ideas to fix the USB Drive and be able to actually use it again?
Oh, and I also zeroed the drive using dd and it took a few hours at 4.7MB/s, then tried doing mkfs but it didn't work. Maybe even made it worse.
Recently one of my USB Drives became unreadable according to GParted. None of the partitions show up and it doesn't mount to Ubuntu Desktop 20.10. I've tried all the command line tools under the sun that I know of but nothing, the partition table "writes", but never mounts. I reload the tool and guess what: the partition table is none existent.
Tools I've used:
-fdisk
-mkfs
-cfdisk
-GParted (doesn't do anything, just informs me that it's unreadable even after writing new partition table.)
When I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/sda -I
it told me that attribute "partition" not found
Any ideas to fix the USB Drive and be able to actually use it again?
Oh, and I also zeroed the drive using dd and it took a few hours at 4.7MB/s, then tried doing mkfs but it didn't work. Maybe even made it worse.