I have a 16GB Kingston USB Drive that I have been using to run Trisquel on
multiple computers, and I have been using it for a while. Today I was running
a program when the OS froze. I couldn't use any shortcuts or click anything.
So I decided to take the bad route and I turned my computer off.
When I booted back up it was a standard Trisquel install but with no taskbar.
The background was also plain blue. I looked for some of my files but they
were all corrupt and wouldn't open. Not much was loss so I decided to boot
back up from CD so I could install the OS on the USB again.
I erased the disk using Startup Disk Creator and then installed the OS on the
USB drive.
I booted back up from the USB drive but when I got past the loading screen I
got a black terminal screen with a recurring error. It was happening very
fast so I couldn't read it, but I could tell it was the same error happening
over and over.
I booted back up from the CD again. This time I tried to erase the drive
again, but I got some errors. The first few times I tried it, it acted as if
it was erased but didn't display how much free space. After trying a few more
times, I got the error:
org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Error creating file system: helper
exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mkfs.vfat: failed whilst writing FAT
mkfs.vfat 3.0.12 (29 Oct 2011)
Then I tried again and got:
org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Error creating partition: helper exited
with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdb, start=0,
size=15479597056, type=0x0c
Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=15479597056)
No MSDOS_MAGIC found
Exiting MS-DOS parser
Entering Apple parser
No MAC_MAGIC found
Leaving Apple parser
No known partition table found
unknown partition table format and flags is not empty
I am afraid that I might have permanently corrupted my USB Drive (if that is
possible). If anyone can identify the problem and how/if I can fix it, that
would help me a whole ton. Thanks
