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    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 12 21:22:28 2023
    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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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 13 10:24:04 2023
    On 2023-11-12, [email protected] 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?


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  • From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 13 12:12:05 2023
    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 <[email protected]> by Dan Purgert <[email protected]> on Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:24:04 we perused:
    *+-On 2023-11-12, [email protected] 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?



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  • From Dan Purgert@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 13 13:25:09 2023
    On 2023-11-13, [email protected] wrote:

    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).


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  • From Jeff Liebermann@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 13 11:37:57 2023
    On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 12:12:05 -0000 (UTC),
    [email protected] 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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