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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

#242340 — what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

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I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion

so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when
booting off.
I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a
slightly different output.
Is the output resulting from the options or is something really wrong with
the USB

Should I throw it away?

If no should I try reformat it

thanks & regards


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#242363

deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> wrote:

> I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion

> so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when
> booting off.
> I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a
> slightly different output.
> Is the output resulting from the options or is something really wrong with
> the USB

> Should I throw it away?

Yes.

When even the lowly and beyond-cheap flash controller of a USB stick
throws external errors, then it is time to just throw it away.

> If no should I try reformat it

No.

S!

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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

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#242368

On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Should I throw it away?
> Yes.

Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were 
able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin.

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#242369

On 2021-11-24, piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>> Should I throw it away?
>> Yes.
>
> Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were 
> able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin.
>

I thought I had a bad one once but it was a flaky port.

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#242373

On 24/11/2021 16:10, Curt wrote:
> On 2021-11-24, piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> wrote:
>> On 24/11/2021 10:04, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>>> Should I throw it away?
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Agree. I had some bad USBs, did a lot of trickery on them but never were
>> able to revive them and put them back to any reasonable use. Bin.
>>
>
> I thought I had a bad one once but it was a flaky port.

Good tip, worth checking also. Check on entirely separate machine using
tool like Capacity Tester (that's a FOSS rewrite of very similar Windows
tool):
https://github.com/c0xc/CapacityTester

Test stick, on two separate computers, if it fails on both, bin.

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On Tue, Nov 23, 2021, 7:56 AM deloptes <emanoil.kotsev@deloptes.org> wrote:

> I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion
>
> so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when
> booting off.
>

It's giving you more feedback than one of mine did.  It just timed out on
all I/O operations, during an attempted Mint 20 Install (making me think
Mint was more Defective than it is.  [Disclaimer:  It does what it needs to
do, and is good for a beginner]).

Finally, I smelled a rat, aborted the Mint install and tried to read it on
a different machine.

I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a
> slightly different output.
> Is the output resulting from the options or is something really wrong with
> the USB
>

They go bad often. I won't even purchase one from FedEx Office anymore,
after so many of theirs failed.

>
> Should I throw it away?
>

I agree with the other response:  Yes!

>
> If no should I try reformat it
>

Try that, only for the humor of it.  (I would be surprised if it worked
after that).

>
> thanks & regards
>

You too.

>
Kenneth Parker

>

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#242380

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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!

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*...Bob*

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