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[LUG] USB drives

 

I have been trying to use usb drives lately. One a usb 500 gb ssd drive for backing up and one a 64 gb micro sd card for use in an Android tablet, and I have borked both of them. Total value £36 so not a disaster. But I can't find a way to reformat them in spite of extensive googling and that is extremely annoying. There must be some way of forcing a basic format of these drives. Gparted won't touch them, msusb does nothing and various command line methods have done nothing. A lot of methods concentrate on getting data back but I don't want to do that. I just want them in a state to get data onto them. Any ideas anybody?

George


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