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CaypsoOvetune

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Registered: 2026-04-20

Posts: 2

USB flash drive doesn’t appear

Hi guys I'm trying to format my USB stick.

I followed guides on the internet how to format and delete all the data inside the key, also because I always got the error " udisk error quark 14" and apparently I succeeded, maybe, I don't know, because now the stick doesn't appear, you hear the sound, the PC finds it (since typing "fdisk /dev/sda1 I get this: welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.42). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command.)
but, I repeat, I don't see it and I don't know how to know if it works, if it's empty, if I can add files and etc...

In short, I want if it still works, how can I review it in the files app. Thank you

teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 579

Re: USB flash drive doesn’t appear

dmesg -w

Then plug the stick in. Does it show up?

Mount a partition to a directory. Read/write from/to the drive.

What part of that fails?

man dmesg
man mount

CaypsoOvetune

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Registered: 2026-04-20

Posts: 2

Re: USB flash drive doesn’t appear

Hi, I did as you told me.

After sending dmesg -w, I disconnected the USB stick and it appeared: USB disconnect, device number 5.

If I reconnect it to the PC it gives me:

-New SuperSpeed USB device n.6 using xhci_hcd

-New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1666, bcdDevice= 1.10 and so on....

Then you wrote me to mount a partition to a directory, since I don't know how to do it and I don't want to break your balls, if I follow this guide do I do the right thing? Https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029040/how-to-manually-mount-a-partition
Thanks for helping me

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,664

Re: USB flash drive doesn’t appear

If I reconnect it to the PC it gives me:… and so on....

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
Verbatim. You can

dmesg -W | tee /tmp/dmesg.log

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/File_s … ile_system

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