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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.

user1067726
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    Possible duplicate of [What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only?](https://superuser.com/questions/1125282/what-can-i-do-if-my-usb-flash-drive-is-write-protected-or-read-only) Usually there is no fix. Throw it away. – Tetsujin Jul 26 '19 at 08:26
  • Well Thank you. I kinda thought so. – user1067726 Jul 26 '19 at 08:41

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