Re: what to do with USB stick that gives badblocks errors

[Bob Weber]

On 11/24/21 11:52, Kenneth Parker wrote:

Try Steve Gibson's initdisk.  It claims:
"Experience has shown that USB thumb drives believed
to be dead may be brought back to life with InitDisk."

https://www.grc.com/initdisk.htm

Steve has done a lot of testing on USB flash drives and has discovered ways of 
getting down to the raw drive past the controller.

Check out his other freeware especially shields up!

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*...Bob*