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Fixing a broken USB Drive

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I have an old Kingston 8 GB pen drive. After inserting it, gnome-disks believes it is 2.2 TB large. GParted spews with I/O errors while scanning for partitions. Is there any way to save the usb drive?
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vl1969

Post by vl1969 »

If there is data you need try some of the flash data recovery apps. Otherwise just toss it.

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Re: Fixing a broken USB Drive

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these things were designed for the M$ O/S - so you must use that to fix it. ..

- if that don't help - then it's time for a new one.
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Re: Fixing a broken USB Drive

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Thanks!
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