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USB stick damaged during a blackout
I was copying some files to a USB stick, the process would have taken 1 hour or so but a few minutes later after the process started I had a blackout, and when the power got restored I could not mount the main partition of the USB stick The following dmesg dumps are several attempts I made to try and delete the partition and the partition table of the device using GParted: The partition would not open in Windows and the explorer would just freeze trying to open it, I booted into Linux just to see the same problem happening, so it was not an OS issue. At Linux when I saw the dmesg it looks like
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