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Trouble formatting USB stick, although can read-access
I have an 8Gb memory stick that appears to be corrupted. I can read stuff from it okay, but cannot write or delete files.
When I try to reformat it in GParted, it tries to do it, takes ages then comes up with an error. When I re-examine the stick, it has not touched or deleted any of the files during its "reformat".
Doing "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb" brings up the usual display, with no indication of any problem.
Is there anything I can do to reformat this thing, remove the "corruption" and make the stick usable again? It mounts and reads the existing content okay. Could it be read-only in some way - even when GParted is running as root - and how can I get round this?
Thank you for any help you can give.
Steve
Last edited by Steve W; 02-20-2017 at 05:56 AM.
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