yeah. I think all is loast. I finally got around to looking at the gparted report:
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| Device: | /dev/sdd |
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| Model: | SanDisk Ultra |
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| Serial: | |
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| Sector size: | 512 |
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| Total sectors: | 60063744 |
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| Heads: | 255 |
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| Sectors/track: | 2 |
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| Cylinders: | 117772 |
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| Partition table: | none |
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| Partition | Type | Start | End | Flags | Partition Name | File System | Label | Mount Point |
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| /dev/sdd | Unpartitioned | 0 | 60063743 | | | iso9660 | Kali Live | |
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| Format /dev/sdd as ext4 00:00:17 ( ERROR ) |
| | | calibrate /dev/sdd 00:00:00 ( SUCCESS ) | | | path: /dev/sdd (device)
start: 0
end: 60063743
size: 60063744 (28.64 GiB) |
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| clear old file system signatures in /dev/sdd 00:00:17 ( ERROR ) | | | | write 512.00 KiB of zeros at byte offset 0 00:00:17 ( ERROR ) | | | | libparted messages ( ERROR ) | | | | Unable to open /dev/sdd read-write (Read-only file system). /dev/sdd has been opened read-only. |
| Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only. |
| Can't write to /dev/sdd, because it is opened read-only. |
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