The device is not visible under the section Mount Devices in Parted Magic, nor in my mini-install of Windows XP.
I've tried several things to fix the 16GB flash drive, which is a Kingston Data Traveler 2.0, like formatting, assigning disk letters, re-installing drivers (while it was still visible) and fdisk -l
in Parted Magic.
Still, lsusb
does show it.
root@PartedMagic:~# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0951:1665 Kingston Technology
I think I've also tried to use all the options available in Disk Shredder in Parted Magic, but now it says No drives have been detected
.
Gparted says input output error
, and I have to Ignore or Retry forever, and then it says couldn't open dev/sda because no such file or directory exists, as well as An error occured while creating partition table
(it says I have to make one and it is showing the flash drive as unallocated).
Right after the failed attempt, Gparted stops seeing it anymore, and so does lsusb
also. However, after plugging the USB flash drive into the USB port again, it is seen by them, and the Mount devices window shows up like it has detected some device to mount - still, Kingston isn't visible there.
I'm currently out of ideas because everything I've tried has failed, and when I search for solutions I can only find ones similar to what I've already tried - and failed at.
Please note that I'm not after the data I just want the device to work again.