[SOLVED] Trouble with new USB

[gold_finger]

Have seen posts like this before and only thing that ended up working was to zero out USB with dd first, then reformat.  Might as well give it a shot.

Plug USB in and make sure you know which device name is assigned to it.  If sudo blkid doesn't show it, open GParted and find out the name from there.  (Then close GParted.)  For this example I'll use "/dev/sdb" for name of USB.  If that's not correct for you, change it in command below.

To write zeros to whole USB, open a terminal and enter this command:

Code:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=4K conv=notrunc

Wait until it completes (could take many minutes), then unplug drive.

Plug drive back in, open GParted -- create new "msdos" partition table, then make partition(s) you want on it.

Hopefully that works.