why does the transfer rate of dd slow? When I starte paying attention to it it was about 15MB/s but now (about 2 minutes later) it is 7MB/s (and it is still slowing). On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:57 AM Michael wrote: > I'lll try 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{device}' to see if I can rescue > this drive. > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:46 AM Michael wrote: > >> I thought creating a gpt partition table would fix it but I was wrong. >> This time I clicked on the offending drive in the file manager and a >> 'permission denied' message appeared. So I suppose I will have to chmod it. >> The proper command would be 'chmod -r 777 {device}'? >> >> Wait a second.... I seem to remember that this is a sign of a disk going >> bad. Is this so? Two devices going bad at the same time? Talk about bad >> luck! >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM Michael wrote: >> >>> I was kinda oopy last night (I didn't google a solution to how to fix it >>> ) but I just did and found out how to set the partition table. But which >>> should I choose? I've heard gpt mentioned but am unsure. Could I hear some >>> opinions from the learnED here? >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM Michael wrote: >>> >>>> in my other thread I looked at a gparted report. Well it had something >>>> related to this thread. In the report it is mentioned that file system >>>> type is ext4 but that the partition table is msdos. Does that matter.How >>>> should it be fixed if it does? >>>> >>>> ======================================== >>>> Device: /dev/sdb >>>> Model: SanDisk Ultra >>>> Serial: >>>> Sector size: 512 >>>> Total sectors: 240353280 >>>> >>>> Heads: 255 >>>> Sectors/track: 2 >>>> Cylinders: 471280 >>>> >>>> Partition table: msdos >>>> >>>> PartitionTypeStartEndFlagsPartition NameFile SystemLabelMount Point >>>> /dev/sdb1 Primary 2048 240353279 ext4 >>>> /media/michael/5d19820a-dfe9-4a0f-8593-9339e9b4ecd2 >>>> >>>> ======================================== >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Michael wrote: >>>> >>>>> Okay, I spent the last thirty minutes copying all the files from the >>>>> fat fomatted drive to a folder on the desktop. Then I formatted the drive >>>>> to ext4. Now I can't drag the files back on to the USB drive. I suppose I >>>>> could chmod -r 777 the drive but what is the right way to do it? >>>>> -- >>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> >> >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: