I formatted a live USB under windows, but it got completely bricked. It shows up in Disks as having a 478MB efi partition containing archiso(files are recognized, but I doubt they are intact) and 15GB unallocated space. Windows is unable to do anything with it past recognizing it's existence.It shows up ind disks as having MBR partitioning. Is there a way to help this? Here is what i tried so far:
- A multitude of USB tools under windows. They universally can't see it, but it shows up under devices and dkismgmt.
Quick Formatting it with gnome disks. It threw a partition does not exist error.
Same error when I tried to delete the partition, or change it's type.
EDIT:
- tried to zero and format the drive, it didn1t work but formatting of the previous efi section magically changed to FAT and I was able to delete the partition.
Status: The drive is now all free space, but I still can't format/create partitions on it.
fdisk(8)
. Run:# fdisk /dev/sdx
. After that typeo
and then create a partition withn
. If the program produce any error output, post it here