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I wanted to format my usb, so I opened disk-utility to format. But the formatting process wasn't complete and gave me some error. Now my usb isn't detected; please help.

Please find the screen shot from dmesg:-

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I upgraded to 12.04.1 yesterday, could that be a cause of the problem?

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    Try plugging Your USB drive in Other USB port of your system.
    – atenz
    Aug 25, 2012 at 6:58
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    Shut down, start up, try again. If same problem, either port or drive died...
    – ish
    Aug 25, 2012 at 7:02
  • i've tried plugging the usb onto all the ports, its not being detected.Is there any logs I can check that will tell me what went wrong and how can I prevent the same in future? I have tried restarting the laptop.
    – Ankit
    Aug 25, 2012 at 7:08

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Try this - in terminal type:-

sudo killall udisks

then load gparted if you have it on your system - format to desired file system.

This command has helped with a lot of USB problems - it may help you.

good luck Mal

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  • thanks, I managed to format the disk using gparted. I used the ext4 partition to format the disk. Now the disk is being detected. thanks again :)
    – Ankit
    Aug 25, 2012 at 7:33

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