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leewilson78

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Original poster
Jan 7, 2007
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Hi all,

I purchased a 32gb usb flash drive from ebay. I transferred some music on there, it crashed half way through transferring.

When I restarted and plugged it in, it didn't appear on the desktop. I went into Disk Utility and tried to erase it, I get the following error:

Disk Erase failed with the error:

Input/output error

So I then tried the following in Terminal:

diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ newdisk disk2

But got the following message:

Partitioning encountered error Input/output error (5) on disk disk2 NO NAME

Anyway know of a solution, or is it a faulty usb drive?

Thanks
 
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