Is there a way I can restore its factory state? I also tried to rewrite an initial drive area with a test content with badblocks sudo badblocks -w -s -o /tmp/usbstick.log /dev/sdcĪnd with dd sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=1024k count=2īut I couldn't reformat it to usable state. dev/sdc1 * 62 15793073 7896506 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFATĬalling ioctl() to re-read partition table.Īfter this I tried to pull out and plug in the stick again but NTFS mount error window appeared each time. I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Then tried to delete a partition with fdisk # fdisk /dev/sdcĢ49 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1023 cylinders, total 15794176 sectors GPT data structures destroyed! You may now partition the disk using fdisk or Here is the output: Expert command (? for help): zĪbout to wipe out GPT on /dev/sdc.
, opened expert tools with x, z (to destroy GPT). Typing 'q' if you don't want to convert your MBR partitions THIS OPERATION IS POTENTIALLY DESTRUCTIVE! Exit by
Then gdisk /dev/sdc again: # gdisk /dev/sdc I tried to convert it to MBR from GPT with gdisk by gdisk /dev/sdc, then w (to write GPT from memory to the drive as the tool reported "Found invalid GPT and valid MBR converting MBR to GPT format in memory"). Now I can't reformat it nor in Windows nor in Linux.
#Gdisk wipe boot disk windows 01 install
I can't remember what exactly I did but I think I wanted to be able to install Win 7 64-bit to boot in EFI mode. Sometimes ago I formatted it to be able to install Windows from it.