Need help. USB flash stick not being able to be read!

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 02:13 AM

nothings worked

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 02:20 AM

nothings worked

jsbjsb001 · 06-24-2018, 07:02 AM

When you plug it into your machine, does it show up in your kernel log?

As when the kernel detects it, there should be some messages that appear in the kernel log straight after you plug it in.
To check, type the following into a terminal window:

Code:

dmesg

If it does, see if it still shows the partition on it:

Code:

fdisk -l

or

Code:

parted -l

If so, do a file system check on it:

Code:

fsck -C /dev/sdX

Replace "sdX" with the actual drive letter. Make sure you UN-MOUNT the USB BEFORE running the above command on it.

BW-userx · 06-24-2018, 09:00 AM

If you can manually mount it, if you have to, then you should be able to access via a terminal, or file manager. These were files kept on a OS live with persistence, right? Meaning, You didn’t burn tails on after the fact, if you did then everything that was on it was destroyed.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 02:09 PM

nothings worked

BW-userx · 06-24-2018, 04:00 PM

remember which one is which, do both, to figure it out.

Code:

blkid
lsblk

might help you in determining which one is which.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 05:11 PM

nothings worked

BW-userx · 06-24-2018, 07:33 PM

so you're booting a live OS OFF USB STICK, another USB Stick is the one you want to get into, did you look at your dmesg in a terminal after you plugged in the USB Stick you want to get into to see if it pick up any activity on any of your USB Ports?

some systems need it to be ran in root privs. 'sudo dmesg | tail'

also run the other commands as root, sudo blkid some times it picks up more.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 08:13 PM

nothings worked

BW-userx · 06-24-2018, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LinuxNoob18

Yes, tails is a live OS. so its usually ran from a cd or usb stick. I have 2 USB sticks im currently in use of. a 128gb stick which is the one that has gone bad. and a 64gb stick.

The 128GB stick is what I initially ran tails OS from until it went bad then I set up the 64gb stick to run tails from.

I have purchased another 128gb stick so if theres any way to copy any pertinent info some how that may get the old broken 128gb stick to mount so i can get the info off that would be wonderful.

I recently set up the new 128gb stick for tails and the usb port and it was writing to sda which Im guessing is the port that I will use from now on for the broken 128gb stick just in case this info can be useful

if it is broken then it is broken, as in no longer accessible. you can open gparted after you plug it in and see if it picks it up then see what it says about it and if it can do any thing with it. but if it quit working, I'd say you're at a loss, gParted might be able to make it useable again, but I am afraid you may have lost everything that was on it.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 10:23 PM

nothings worked

BW-userx · 06-24-2018, 10:30 PM

I am not an expert on that, but I know every time I get a hard drive that loess it’s partition table. It’s crap and use gParted to see if I can re-establish a new one. Losing everything that was on it in the process.

You should start searching for ways to recover partition tables to see if you can. This is why I back up my important files so I’ll have more than one copy of them.

I wish you the best, it’s late here, if I come up with something more, I’ll post it.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-24-2018, 10:32 PM

nothings worked

ondoho · 06-25-2018, 03:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LinuxNoob18

I just ran

Code:

sudo dmesg | tail

from root terminal and here is what it returned. the problem is, I have absolutely no idea as to what Im looking for.

Code:

root@amnesia:~# sudo dmesg | tail
[  729.970693] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:963c:3dfe:b59f:54b1 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0001 LEN=64 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=1 FLOWLBL=617261 PROTO=UDP SPT=8612 DPT=8610 LEN=24 UID=109 GID=117 
[  730.754887] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=10.0.0.7 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=43 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=8446 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=54470 DPT=3289 LEN=23 UID=109 GID=117 
[  731.004248] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:963c:3dfe:b59f:54b1 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 LEN=48 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=255 FLOWLBL=409208 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=133 CODE=0 UID=0 GID=0 
[  731.775463] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=10.0.0.7 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=65 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=8676 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=37669 DPT=1124 LEN=45 UID=109 GID=117 
[  731.816044] usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  733.268079] usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  734.716129] usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  735.003057] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:963c:3dfe:b59f:54b1 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 LEN=48 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=255 FLOWLBL=409208 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=133 CODE=0 UID=0 GID=0 
[  736.164133] usb 2-1.1: reset high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
[  739.002210] Dropped outbound packet: IN= OUT=wlan0 SRC=fe80:0000:0000:0000:963c:3dfe:b59f:54b1 DST=ff02:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0002 LEN=48 TC=0 HOPLIMIT=255 FLOWLBL=409208 PROTO=ICMPv6 TYPE=133 CODE=0 UID=0 GID=0 
root@amnesia:~#

did you do this ~10s after inserting the usb stick in question?
it looks like your stick is definitely recognized.

in any case, it might be better this way:

remove stick
enter 'dmesg -w' in terminal, maybe press enter a few times to get a visual divider
insert stick
post everything NEW that appeared in terminal

you can also look at

Code:

ls /dev/disk/by-id

before and after inserting the stick.

LinuxNoob18 · 06-25-2018, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ondoho

did you do this ~10s after inserting the usb stick in question?
it looks like your stick is definitely recognized.

in any case, it might be better this way:

remove stick
enter 'dmesg -w' in terminal, maybe press enter a few times to get a visual divider
insert stick
post everything NEW that appeared in terminal

you can also look at

Code:

ls /dev/disk/by-id

before and after inserting the stick.

https://pastebin.com/qVaRs57K