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Offline fohat.digs

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USB flash drive question
« on: Wed, 14 August 2024, 09:45:38 »
I have a couple of USB flash drives (in the 16GB to 32GB size range) that do not seem to work any more, although they look good on the outside.

They report as "Unable to mount USB drive .... " and something like "likely corrupted file system .... "

My guess is that they cannot be trusted for future use, but I would like to find out what is on them if I could. Linux Mint will go no further than telling me that it is unable to mount them.

Is there anything to do with them except drop them in the waste basket? Would leaving them on a strong magnet for a few hours allow me to reformat them?

Thanks!

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But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.
For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions.
Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. --George Orwell, 1984

Offline Osidian

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Re: USB flash drive question
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 14 August 2024, 19:40:55 »
Hello!
I wouldn't recommend using a magnet on the USB flash drives. Flash memory is different from hard drives that have magnetic storage, it might cause further issues. There are some applications you can use that may help to recover data like TestDisk. Hope this helps!   
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Offline Leslieann

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Re: USB flash drive question
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 15 August 2024, 04:16:59 »
Magnets shouldn't effect flash memory at al.

I've had drives go bad like this, sometimes you can format and use them, just don't trust them for anything important, most times though they either won't format but even if they do, the drive usually fails again soon after. My fix at that point is to drill a hole through the chip and toss it. Flash drives aren't built well, the number of writes is usually pretty low and the electronics inside are often cut rate even from decent brand names, this is why they aren't recommended for backup unless you have several copies.
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Re: USB flash drive question
« Reply #3 on: Thu, 15 August 2024, 07:56:19 »
Thanks guys. The answer is: the garbage can.
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But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty’s figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connexion with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connexion that is contained in a direct lie. Statistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version. A great deal of the time you were expected to make them up out of your head.
For example, the Ministry of Plenty’s forecast had estimated the output of boots for the quarter at 145 million pairs. The actual output was given as sixty-two millions. Winston, however, in rewriting the forecast, marked the figure down to fifty-seven millions, so as to allow for the usual claim that the quota had been overfulfilled. In any case, sixty-two millions was no nearer the truth than fifty-seven millions, or than 145 millions.
Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain. --George Orwell, 1984
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