Unable to reformat a usb drive.

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Unable to reformat a usb drive.

I've been having issues formatting a 64gb flash drive. I can see it does not seen to be writable. If that is the main problem, how can I fix that? More info below:

Volume type : Unknown

BSD device node : disk2s1

Mount point : /Volumes/Untitled

File system : ExFAT

Connection : USB

Device tree path : IODeviceTree:/PCI0@0/XHC1@14

Writable : No

Is case-sensitive : No

File system UUID : 5B7334BD-4603-3746-99CB-9D8A59AB0F78

Volume capacity : 63 065 538 560

Available space (Purgeable + Free) : 37 357 486 080

Purgeable space : 0

Free space : 37 357 486 080

Used space : 25 708 052 480

Owners enabled : No

Is encrypted : No

System Integrity Protection supported : No

Can be verified : Yes

Can be repaired : Yes

Bootable : No

Journaled : No

Disk number : 2

Partition number : 1

Media name :

Media type : Generic

Ejectable : Yes

Solid state : No

SMART status : Not Supported

Parent disks : disk2

Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Posted on Apr 3, 2022 2:28 AM

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Answer 1

Owl-53

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Apr 3, 2022 4:36 AM in response to Christie_Roux

Is there a " Slider Button " on the side or other location On The Drive.

Once directing is Locked and other directions is UnLocked.

All else fails Restart in Safe Mode to perform this Action

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Answer 2

Owl-53

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Apr 3, 2022 4:23 AM in response to Christie_Roux

Disk Utilities >> View >> View ALL attached Drives.

Choose the Upper Most Drive (by the Name of the Manufacturer ) of this drive .

That is the drive to Erase and format as APFS with the GUID Partition Map.

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Answer 3

Owl-53

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Apr 3, 2022 2:32 AM in response to Christie_Roux

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

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Answer 4

Owl-53

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Apr 3, 2022 4:47 AM in response to Christie_Roux

External Drives do fail and as this one appears to be SD Card or Pendrive - they are fragile and fail all of a sudden without a warnings.

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Answer 5

Apr 3, 2022 4:32 AM in response to Owl-53

It seems like the disk2s1 taking up space is write protected and is causing the issue.

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Answer 6

Apr 3, 2022 3:54 AM in response to Christie_Roux

Here's the cmd list of permissions:

Christies-MBP:Untitled christie.roux$ ls -l

total 35100672

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 3446802224 Mar 28 2020 A.Hidden.Life.2019..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 728907352 Nov 12 2019 Babel.2006..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 725180422 Jul 15 2019 Bells.From.The.Deep.1993..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 722194013 Apr 20 2020 Do.You.Remember.Dolly.Bell.1981.(Serbo-Croatian).mkv

drwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 131072 Dec 9 2019 FOUND.000

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 2204936934 May 4 2020 Into.the.Wild.2007..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 785916638 Jul 14 2019 Jennifer's.Body.2009..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 1675252669 Mar 20 2020 Love.2015..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 932391894 Jan 13 2020 Nanook.of.the.North.1922..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 2493116402 Mar 19 2020 Richard.Jewell.2019..mkv

drwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 131072 Nov 7 2019 System Volume Information

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 1986203959 Jul 15 2019 The.Ninth.Configuration.1980..mkv

-rwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 2269437735 Jul 15 2019 The.Tree.Of.Life.2011..mkv

drwxrwxrwx 1 christie.roux staff 131072 May 18 2020 Watch back-to-back

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Answer 7

Apr 3, 2022 3:55 AM in response to Owl-53

I have tried that, but I get this response:

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Answer 8

Apr 3, 2022 4:40 AM in response to Owl-53

This drive does not have a physical slider. I'm beginning to think that it could be a hardware issue as the S.M.A.R.T. Status shows "Not Supported"

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Answer 9

Apr 3, 2022 4:56 AM in response to Owl-53

I have just tried the process again in Safe Mode and got the same error message. I’ll have to get a new drive. Thanks a lot for the help and swift replies.

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Answer 10

Owl-53

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Apr 3, 2022 4:57 AM in response to Christie_Roux

Welcome :-)

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