Fried USB

vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com

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Nov 12, 2023, 4:22:33 PM11/12/23

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I printed stuff from USB at FedEx than transfered some files
from phone to USB then USB went blank. Took it home, same.
Is there any quick way to fix this?

Once my phone (same mfg but not this one) lost an entire SD card I never
recovered and that seemed to be because it went to zero power. I tried all
sorts of gparted utilities to no luck. (I had allowed the phone to partitin
the SD). I don't think I blanked an entire USB before.

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Dan Purgert

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Nov 13, 2023, 5:24:09 AM11/13/23

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On 2023-11-12, vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
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> I printed stuff from USB at FedEx than transfered some files
> from phone to USB then USB went blank. Took it home, same.
> Is there any quick way to fix this?

Go to $store of choice, and buy a new one. You mentioned gparted, so I
assume you have a Linux box -- what happens in dmesg when you plug it
in?

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vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com

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Nov 13, 2023, 7:12:10 AM11/13/23

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I got tons of free usb drives from trade shows

I got lotsa boxes.. I forgot dmesg - please remind me
there is also a partition fixer that comes with windows
it comes up but it doesn't tell me what params to use

the partitionson (DOS/XP/CAELinux) the system am using took a lot of work to
set up and I don't want to mess them.

there was a lot of things I tried last time this happened - nothing worked
gparted says unrecognisable drive format
but I see this as prolly lost cause

The goon ghules at android run rough shod on a lot of standards

In <slrnul3uc...@djph.net> by Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> on Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:24:04 we perused:
*+-On 2023-11-12, vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
*+->
*+-> I printed stuff from USB at FedEx than transfered some files
*+-> from phone to USB then USB went blank. Took it home, same.
*+-> Is there any quick way to fix this?

*+-Go to $store of choice, and buy a new one. You mentioned gparted, so I
*+-assume you have a Linux box -- what happens in dmesg when you plug it
*+-in?

Dan Purgert

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Nov 13, 2023, 8:25:15 AM11/13/23

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On 2023-11-13, vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
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> I got tons of free usb drives from trade shows
>
> I got lotsa boxes.. I forgot dmesg - please remind me

Well, dmesg would show kernel-level logging when you plug in the device,
that is "does the machine even recognize what you've plugged in?".

Might not show partition details (in fact, it probably doesn't, beyond
"found 1 partition"), but it'll at least show things like the
manufacturer / serial number / etc. that will at least point towards
"what has failed" (e.g. if it gets the vendor data, but can't talk to
the flash ... might be a case of an "unsafe ejection" broke the
formatting on the flash).

Jeff Liebermann

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Nov 13, 2023, 2:38:13 PM11/13/23

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On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:12:05 -0000 (UTC),
vjp...@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:

>there was a lot of things I tried last time this happened - nothing worked
>gparted says unrecognisable drive format
>but I see this as prolly lost cause

At least gparted recognizes the drive.

If you want to try the software recovery method, there are plenty of
programs to choose from:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=flash+drive+recovery+software>
Most of these include a "trial" version of the program to test if
there is a chance at fixing the drive or recovering the data.
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