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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?

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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/sdb1Primary2048240353279ext4/media/michael/5d19820a-dfe9-4a0f-8593-9339e9b4ecd2

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On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 8:41 PM Michael <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?
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