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I have a problem with already 2nd USB drives, most probably due to the reason of choosing slow formatting option. Because it takes a LOT of time, I probably forget about it and accidentally break the formatting process. Now I have 2 completely useless USB drives.

Ubuntu can't read them, actually, Disks application recognize them, but there are very few options offered: "Edit Mount Options", "Eject" and "Power Off". Gparted doesn't recognize it, as well as testdrive and fsck ("No medium found while trying to open /dev/sdc").

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I suppose that drivers for recognizing USB drive are corrupted or maybe there is some bad sector in an important part of the memory. I hope there is a way to make this 2 USB drives alive again.

I know how this will sound, but...I also break slow HDD partition formatting after 12 hours (accidentally), and I didn't have any problem. So there is my hope that it is possible to fix USB drives.

Gujche
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  • Try formatting the drives in Windows using the Disk Management app, create a GPT partition table, and a NTFS partition. Report back. – heynnema Oct 24 '18 at 18:08
  • Disk Management app can't do anything with the USB drive, it just recognizes that it is USB and registers it as offline with 0 bytes. – Gujche Oct 25 '18 at 07:30
  • It probably has more to do with the USB-to-SATA interface module then. Disassemble the drive enclosures, and remove the hard drive, and connect it directly to a SATA bus, try and quick format it to DOS, reassemble the drive enclosures, and retry to quick init it again. Report back. – heynnema Oct 25 '18 at 13:36

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  • If a hard disk drive,HDD, or solid state drive, SSD: Check the S.M.A.R.T. information of the drive (to tell if there is something fundamentally wrong with the hardware).

  • For all drives, mass storage devices including HDD, SSD, pendrive, memory card:

    1. Try with mkusb to wipe the first mibibyte, and if successful, try again with gparted to create the partitions you want.

    2. If still problems, analyze them and try again to solve them according to this link.

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    I tried almost all of the suggested actions, but unfortunately, nothing solves the problem. It is strange that also Windows recognizes the USB drive, but it can't read it. – Gujche Oct 25 '18 at 07:29
  • @Gujche, I'm sorry, but it makes me think that the USB drive is damaged (physically). – sudodus Oct 25 '18 at 07:32
  • I do not exclude that option (that nasty Ubuntu could do a lot of bad things), but before I start with autopsy I would like to try all possible options. – Gujche Oct 25 '18 at 08:58
  • @Gujche, I wish you good luck, when you try also the remaining actions :-) – sudodus Oct 25 '18 at 11:16