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Jon Magee wrote: > I ran dd as you suggested, unplugged/replugged the USB, and > started KDE partition manager. It saw it as an 'unknown device (0 B)'. I > tried to create a new partition table and got this error: > Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sdc’ > Job: Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sdc’ > Creating partition table failed: Could not create a new partition table in > the backend for device ‘/dev/sdc’. > Create new partition table on device ‘/dev/sdc’: Error > Create a new partition table (type: gpt) on ‘/dev/sdc’: Error ("Error" is about the most useless problem specification that i can imagine.) What do you get from inspecting the first two blocks of the device ? Please show the outputs of dd if=/dev/sdc bs=512 count=2 | od -t x1 and /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdc > To follow-up, the previous error was when I made a GPT partition table. An > MS-DOS table succeeded, but the device still showed as 0 B, with "No valid > partition table found on this device." (KDE partition manager) In Disks, it > still shows the old partitions but I can't do anything to them, format or > otherwise. This partitioning has probably overwritten the state after the zeroizing dd run. Nevertheless, the new state is of interest too. > In Disks, it > still shows the old partitions but I can't do anything to them, format or > otherwise. We will have to reduce complexity of this problem by avoiding frontend programs which try to be smart. Have a nice day :) Thomas