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I believe that the device is now toast.
If dd cannot write to it at all, even when the system sees it as a device, then nothing you can do will be able to access it for writing. USB sticks usually fail to read only for data protection and the device prevents writing from that point on.
If this doesn’t work, I would have to agree that the usb has gone bad.
Code:
user@Lenovo-ideapad-110-17IKB:~$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
[sudo] password for user:
dd: writing to '/dev/sdb': Input/output error
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0,000710205 s, 0,0 kB/s
user@Lenovo-ideapad-110-17IKB:~$
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