I have a 16GB usb flash drive and I made it bootable to install Linux Mint. But for some reason, I couldn't install and did an unsafe eject.
Now, I cannot mount the drive, neither on Windows nor Linux.
If I run 'sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb'
, following shows,
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0 GB, 16008609792 bytes
64 heads, 32 sectors/track, 15267 cylinders, total 31266816 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4c66d349
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0 1982463 991232 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
Is my flash drive dead? How can I make it work again?
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
. The file system may just need to be checked. If the drive has been partitioned, then you should run fsck on the partitions. This may get the drive to a point of being usable without needing to reinitialize itsudo fsck /dev/sdb1
to check the file system