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

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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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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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