Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-09 17:00, ghe2001 wrote: On Sunday, February 9, 2020 5:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: # time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SanDisk_Ultra_Fit_-0\:0 Assuming dd has already put the img at the beginning of the thumbDrive, how about asking gparted

Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (please Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org when replying 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

Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-02-09 14:27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2 of=/dev/sdc When I want to zero-fill a USB flash drive: 1 1M = 1024*1024 byte blocks read and write much faster than 512 byte blocks. 2. I zero-fill the whole flash drive (by omitting 'count'): a. Get rid

Re: Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, dd brought your stick into this state. dd should get it out too. dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=2 of=/dev/sdc should zap the MBR partition table and the GPT header block. (Of course verify three times that /dev/sdc is the address of the stick before erasing its partition table.) Then do

Repair bootable USB stick

2020-02-09 Thread Jon Magee
I recently helped a friend install Mint on her computer, and I made a bootable USB stick using their .iso and dd. It's a 16Gb drive, and the .iso was 3.9Gb. I now have the problem that I can only format 3.9Gb of the drive. I'm on Debian 10.2 with KDE. GNOME Disks utility recognizes the device