I broke my flash drive?

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I encountered some kind of strange error when trying to format a USB drive for booting Linux. The program I was using to burn the image (LiLi) stopped working and shortly after I realized that the drive had become completely useless. MS Windows still recognizes the device, but can't use it, but Linux didn't recognize it at all. The error occurred while burning the most recent version of Manjaro to my Kingston DT101 G2 32 GB thumbdrive. Here's some pictures



I tried googling the problem for a while, and the solution seemed to be changing the drive letter for most people, but that option is grayed out on the Windows disk partitioning tool.

Anyone got some idea of what's going on here, or how to fix it?

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I would be interested to see how linux sees the device.

do you have a running Linux install?

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Yeah I got one on my laptop.

Just gimmie a second I gotta figure out how to post screenshots from it cause puush doesn't have a port :(((((

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Here, Just like I said, Linux doesn't recognize it at all. sda and b are both internal hard drives.

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Try this for me:
1: Remove the USB drive.
2: in terminal:

sudo dmesg

3: insert USB drive.
4: rerun #2
You should see where the system has recognized the USB device.

and might have a device that has been allocated for it. (i.e. /dev/sdc)

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Jesus, you want me to paste all of this?

Alright,


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would actually be just the last few lines.

But this helps.

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[ 566.005647] usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[ 566.180607] usb-storage 3-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 566.181342] scsi host7: usb-storage 3-2:1.0
[ 567.182593] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access 2267 PRAM 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 567.200741] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk

Shows the device at SDC as a removable disk.

You should be able to do a cfdisk or fdisk, or even use Gparted to gain access to SDC and give it a partition.

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I had a similar issue with my microSD card in my phone... it was dead no device saw it not windows, andorid, linux. had to replace it.

I too was formatting it.

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And how exactly would I go about doing that?
I've tried 

sudo fdisk /dev/sdc

But there doesn't seem to be anything there

Apologies for doing the same thing over again without permissions. If you can't tell already I'm a bit of a Linux newbie

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Ok,

have you tried running mbr?
this may fix your problem.

sudo apt-get install mbr
install-mbr /dev/sdc

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Nope.

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Hmmm.. I wonder if @wendell has ran into an issue like this.

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No medium sudo because fuse? sudo bash then fdisk -l
To see disks

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Nope, doesn't say anything about SDC.

Here's the full printout in case I'm stupid and missed something.

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I had this once before same thing no media and not detected in linux (ubuntu).

The drive has failed. If it is under warranty take/send it back or buy a new one.

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Damn, the drive isn't worth much but it's still a shame to throw it away. We've been through so much together ;_;

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I know how you feel.

I had 2 Kingston 1GB Flash Drives got them for $5 and they were over 5 years old, gave them to my brother and he lost both.

The one that broke was plugged into a Xbox 360 once then into my pc and dead.