Hey everyone! So I wanted to create a bootable USB for Windows using my Arch Linux setup, but I might have messed things up. I ran the command `wipefs -a /dev/sdb` because I thought it would work fine. Now my USB drive is acting weird. I've tried using `dd` to overwrite it with zeros and making new partitions, but nothing seems to work. Now it looks like the whole drive /dev/sda is treated as a single filesystem (NTFS) instead of showing partitions like /dev/sdb1. Whenever I try to format or resize it, I get errors. It shows up in Gparted but fails to create a filesystem. I'm worried I've completely bricked my USB drive, but I'd love to hear if anyone has ideas on how to fix this!
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It sounds like your USB stick may have just failed rather than being bricked. The command you ran, `wipefs`, just clears the filesystem information, so it shouldn't ruin the drive completely. The fact that `dd` and Gparted are also struggling indicates it might just be a faulty drive now.
Thanks for the reassurance! That does help ease my mind a bit. Time to move on, I guess.