Corrupted Usb And Sd

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This work was done by Anthony Beck, OrcID: 0000-0002-2991-811X.

Data analysis

I've been doing a lot of ISO writing to USB and SD drives recently - #dontAsk. I've been getting a rather worrying number of these:

Invalid partition table - recursive partition on /dev/****

To fix this go into terminal and do the following:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/AAAAAA bs=1M

where AAAAAA refers to your drive (normally sdb or sdc).

This takes quite a long time to process. Once complete re-configure your drive in Gparted.

Written on May 7, 2014