USB devices
USB format (part 1) Source Well, one could try zero’ing the raw block device to see if that can work. If you can write to that then you may be able to create a clean partition table, create a new partition and format that. Suppose the USB stick is on /dev/sdc, first make sure /dev/sdc1 is unmounted: umount /dev/sdc1 See if you can then clear the partition table, say by copying a bunch of zeros over the first few K ...