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So yesterday i had a power failure in my house and now my external HD doesn't work anymore i tried format via cli with mkfs and after 8 hours nothing... gparted stay in infinite loop with de hd plugged and fsck same results. fdisk -l frozen without show him but lsblk shows

$ lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0 465,8G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   301M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2    0  48,8G  0 part /
├─sda3   8:3    0   7,8G  0 part [SWAP]
├─sda4   8:4    0  29,3G  0 part /home
└─sda5   8:5    0 379,5G  0 part /media/OLD
sdb      8:16   0 465,8G  0 disk    # this is the External HD
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

I also tried disks utility to format but don't change i click to format but nothing..

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I don't think that is hardware problem anyone have a solution for this?

OS info

NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="20.04.3 LTS (Focal Fossa)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Lite 5.6"
VERSION_ID="20.04"
Artur Meinild
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Yan Oliveira
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Analyze the problem according to this link

Can't format my usb drive. I have already tried with mkdosfs and gparted - 'Analysis of the problem'

and you will probably find a solution. The hardware of an HDD should survive a power failure, even if the partition table and or file system can be damaged and cause confusion.

First try the following

  • Disconnect other USB devices. Sometimes USB devices can disturb the function for each other.
  • Test with other USB ports.
  • Connect separate power supply for the HDD, if available.

Install mkusb in your Ubuntu system and

  • 'restore to a Standard storage device' (if you are happy with a FAT32 system)

  • 'Wipe the first mibibyte' of the device,

    and then use gparted to create a partition table and one or more partitions with the file systems you want. If you need no compatibility with Windows or MacOS, ext4 is a good file system.

sudodus
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