OS X ::disk Erase Failed With Input/output Error(5)
Sep 23, 2008
I purchased a 32gb usb flash drive from ebay. I transferred some music on there, it crashed half way through transferring.
When I restarted and plugged it in, it didn't appear on the desktop. I went into Disk Utility and tried to erase it, I get the following error:
Disk Erase failed with the error:
Input/output error
So I then tried the following in Terminal:
diskutil eraseDisk HFS+ newdisk disk2
But got the following message:
Partitioning encountered error Input/output error (5) on disk disk2 NO NAME
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Disk Description: WDC WD2500BPVT-00JJSTO MEDIA
Connection Bus: Serial ATA 2
Connection Type: Internal
Total Capacity: 1.8 TB (2,000,474,800,128 bytes)
Write status: Read/write
S.M.A.R.T. status: Verified
Partition Scheme: Unformatted
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Disk Erase failed
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When I try to install an image onto the drive, I get a similar error, except it says "Operation not permitted." When I tried it while booted with an OS X DVD, it worked fine. As far as I know, I should be able to do this while booted from the external HD.
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If it matters, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, running 10.4.
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If it matters, I'm on a Macbook Pro 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, running 10.4.
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