when i go to disk utility and try to format it shows input / output error while reading /dev/sdc
in Gparted it displays as unallocated space.
and in terminal when i run sudo fdisk -l it does not show at all.
what to do??
1 Answer
Create a new partition table using gparted, then create a new partition on it and then format it!
If that still doesn't work, the drive is broken and needs to be replaced... :-(
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tried doing that ...it shows input/output error while reading /dev/sdc ..and then nothing happens... Jan 12, 2015 at 10:08
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i ran sudo badblocks -nv /dev/sdc to find bad blocks..the result was Pass completed, 7864320 bad blocks found. (7864320/0/0 errors) Then tried sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1024 count=7864320 it results in dd: error writing ‘/dev/sdc’: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 0.00526822 s, 0.0 kB/s Jan 12, 2015 at 10:11
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Your drive is hosed... And as you're a reputation 1 user: don't forget to click the grey check-mark under the "0" at the left of this text, therefore "accepting" the answer, which is better then saying "thank you" as both of our reputations will go up! ;-)– FabbyJan 12, 2015 at 10:15