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Kurdt Kobain

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My previously unused 128Gb USB flash drive corrupted last night. After formatting to ex4 it was working in my Zgemma H2 and Gigablue Quad 4K but stopped after a while and is now no longer recognised by neither box nor G-parted in Linux.

Whilst it was in the Gigablue I installed some picons via the plugins menu onto it for use in the Zgemma (as that's still on Willbuild 5.3 and it's listed picons are obsolete) but when putting it back in that box, realised it had corrupted although unsure whether it was related.

Any idea if it can be fixed?
 
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Kurdt Kobain said:
My previously unused 128Gb USB flash drive corrupted last night. After formatting to ex4 it was working in my Zgemma H2 and Gigablue Quad 4K but stopped after a while and is now no longer recognised by neither box nor Linux.

Whilst it was in the Gigablue I installed some picons via the plugins menu onto it for use in the Zgemma (as that's still on Willbuild 5.3 and it's listed picons are obsolete) but when putting it back in that box, realised it had corrupted but unsure whether related.

Any idea if it can be fixed?
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Put it in a laptop/PC and format it (FAT32) then try it in the E2box again
 
pabloescaban said:
Once you put it in the box, go to menu, setup, system, storage devices, initialise the usb.

Don't do anything else.
Once it's initialised, it's ready to be used
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I did this following your advice yesterday but the initialisation fails. Any idea why?

I've got two identical 128Gb USB flash drives and have since successfully managed to format the other one to ex4 and have it working in my e2 boxes but would still like to salvage the broken one, if possible.
 
Kurdt Kobain said:
I did this following your advice yesterday but the initialisation fails. Any idea why?

I've got two identical 128Gb USB flash drives and have since successfully managed to format the other one to ex4 and have it working in my e2 boxes but would still like to salvage the broken one, if possible.
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If initialisation fails, it's a sign that the drive is corrupted.
You could try a disk utility programme on it but I doubt it will fix it.
Get a Sandisk, they're not much more expensive than generic ones
 
Kurdt Kobain said:
I did this following your advice yesterday but the initialisation fails. Any idea why?

I've got two identical 128Gb USB flash drives and have since successfully managed to format the other one to ex4 and have it working in my e2 boxes but would still like to salvage the broken one, if possible.
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You can try a low level format with HDDGuru that works fantastic with corrupt sandisk sticks. Only failed once in 14 years with a sandisk
 
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