Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

From	Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors
Date	2021-11-24 21:40 +0100
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On 11/24/21 11:52, Kenneth Parker wrote:

Try Steve Gibson's initdisk.  It claims:

"Experience has shown that USB thumb drives believed
to be dead may be brought back to life with InitDisk."

https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm

Steve has done a lot of testing on USB flash drives and has discovered ways of 
getting down to the raw drive past the controller.

Check out his other freeware especially shields up!

-- 


*...Bob*

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what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> - 2021-11-23 14:00 +0100
  Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2021-11-24 11:20 +0100
    Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-11-24 16:50 +0100
      Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-11-24 17:20 +0100
        Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2021-11-24 18:50 +0100
  Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-11-24 18:00 +0100
    Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2021-11-24 21:40 +0100

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