I'm having a problem with a USB flash drive that was probably corrupted.
The error I got from Thunar (or Nautilus) was something like "Input / output error".
First I ran lsblk command to find out in which drive on the system was my pen drive. The output I got was: / dev / sda1.
So I tried to restore the pen drive (the data that was on it did not matter to me) using the following command: sudo fsck / dev / sda1, but it did not work.
As this did not work, I decided to reset the USB drive with sudo dd if = / dev / zero of = / dev / sda command, then re-create the data partition withsudo mkfs.msdos -I -f 2 / dev / sda1.
The problem happened when I tried to use the command sudo dd if = / dev / zero of = / dev / sda, because it returned an error similar to what I got from file explorers (input / output error). After that, I can no longer access, or even list, the drive on my PC. It does not appear even with the lsblk command.
Is there any way to recover the flash drive? Even if it is necessary to re-write its firmware, or something like ...
