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So for Christmas my friend got me some USB's from a pretty reputable company. When I copied some folder (~1.5 gb) to it (it was exFAT format) it errored out around 31%, then my OS just unplugged it (I'm not using Windows, Linux person) then errored out. So I replugged it, tried again, and again same thing happened. So 3rd time, my OS just doesn't recognize it... I checked "lsblk" (a linux command to list all drives) and it doesn't appear. So I checked the logs of my system (not OS but system itself) and it says that it's a memory issue (so I know nothing about this cause I never saw something like this before, but I think the USB is formatless as in like it has no accepted format.) So I was extremely confused. I put it on GParted, which is a tool dedicated to formatting drives. Not as an app but I booted a USB with it, AND EVEN THAT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE IT. My dad suggested booting on windows and trying it. So I went on the windows installer again off a USB, opened command prompt, then notepad, then the file dialog (since explorer doesn't exist) and sure enough, even that doesn't recognize it. So my USB is absolutely cooked. All from 1 folder. Wow. Any ideas what to do with it to fix it, or should I just abandon it? Also merry christmas! :D

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    USB stick is cheap, abandon it. If it doest show up at all in lsblk it's not your petition. It's dead probably. I had for a long time a defect usb stick in my house and had several failed Linux installs with it. It just took long before I realized really believed that such thing can actually break.
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