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I just bought a new Lexar 128GB thumb drive. My system was using it at first and allowing me to transfer data to it. All of a sudden while using it, it stopped working. I am using Ubuntu 22.04. Is there any way of correcting this? Without replacing? I have tried on other systems as well to achieve this to include Windows versions 8-11 and Ubuntu 20.04.

Joshua Flynn
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If you have access to a Windows machine, you can use DISKPART to wipe the drive. If the drive shows up there, use the clean command and then reformat the drive. maketecheasier.com has a nice guide.

>diskpart
>list disk
>select disk x
>clean

I'm not aware of the Ubuntu equivalent, but this has worked for me when lsusb would show the drive on the bus, but lsblk wouldn't. dmesg | grep -i usb showed "failed to validate module usb_storage" and journalctl -f showed "failed to validate module usb_storage".

So there is something like a "low level" format for usb drives.

Pebermynte Lars
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