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Okay well I'll count that USB Stick as completely and utterly dead. Thanks for your time and help anyway

Okay so the dd operation has finished: 32014962688 bytes (32 GB, 30 GiB) copied, 1636 s, 19.6 MB/s dd: error writing '/dev/sda': No space left on device 7816961+0 records in 7816960+0 records out 32018268160 bytes (32 GB, 30 GiB) copied, 1661.8 s, 19.3 MB/s I have just opened GParted and...

Ok have set it running, this will take a while on a 32Gb drive... I'll reply back here when it's done.

sudo dmesg | grep sda [ 7841.353849] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 62535680 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB) [ 7841.354139] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off [ 7841.354145] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 [ 7841.354392] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] No Caching mode page found [ 7841.354401] sd...

sudo partprobe /dev/sda lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 1 29.8G 0 disk

My use of fdisk: Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.36). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. Device does not contain a recognised partition table. Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x9ef83dc1. Command (m...

NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 1 29.8G 0 disk That's the output for my USB Stick There should be 32Gb but it only shows 29.8

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...