I have some corrupted USB-Sticks I want to recover. I am not experienced with this and wanted to wipe them to complete zero. So I mounted them in linux. The problem is it is in a "read-only" format. I know there's been tons of topics for that, but I couldn't find a solution in my case. I tried chmodand rm but I found out that it won't work since it's trying to write something to the USB-Stick. Then I tried gparted and It also didn't work.
I tried to wipe it with fsck, but when I try it the output is something like this:
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writing 4 bytes at 4226572 failed: Operation not permitted
I also tried to zero it with dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb. But the Output is something like this:
dd: Can't open '/dev/sdb': Read-only file system
So is there anything else I can try which doesn't afford much time or can I throw it into the bin?
Thanks in advance.
