Messing Up with USB Sticks

Little problems get magnified when due care is not given.

I sorted it out eventually and using it to copy my next book.

Below is a series event that followed due to OEM guys of the USB having a script to protect manufacturing problems and put the blame on the customer who purchased it.

I have figured it out and somehow erase the script.

I have written a script myself on a 16 GiB USB which Even I cannot erase and it is Read Only now.

If one wants to save warranty period do not fiddle.

I do it for fun and to kill Coronavirus botedom.

Yes I messed up with 32 GiB USB 3 for two days.
I wanted to make a bootable Linux USB.
I tried with BSD but it won't without bootable DVD. It cannot make a ZFS file.

I tried Debian but it could not make a swop partition.

Then I could not erase its contents.
I could not read or write files on it.

All Linux distributions I tried, stated it had input output error.

Of this happens to a SD card mounted on a USB mount, that is the end of the SD card.

I have lost at least two SD cards trying to mount a Linux distribution.

This is probably due to manufactures having installed some identification data for future use (covet the warranty period).

Fed up, I decided to install Debian 10 on the spare disk of the PC.

It went all right but I messed up with the GRUB boot record.

I installed Emmaantus (Debian 11) first but it could not dual boot with Debian.

On the second attempt I got Debian install the boot record on the second hard drive.

The first hard disk is SSD and they do not support MBR booting. The SSD support only one operating system.

So if have rotating old disks protect them with due care.

Finally I stuck the USB stick in with Emmabantus running Gparted and erased the content of the USB and formatted with FAT 32 (I tried NTFS and failed).

The USB stick even though it is 3, still stuck with   FAT 32 and cannot think of booting with ZFS, UFS and Linux Swop.

I bought three 32 GiB USBs and I do not know what to do with the other two.

My Laptop after installing Endless OS won't let me boot a USB mounted Linux.

It takes USB for data only.

Endless OS is good but bit on the slow side.

All these hassel is me wanting AbiWord.

Now I have AbiWord in both PC and Laptop.

After all, I have Libre Office 7 Emmabantus and Libre Office 6 on Debian.

I am waiting for Debian 11 and Ubuntu 21-10.

Both may not be ready by December due to Coronavirus slowdown and I may have to wait till July next year for Steam Deck and Dock (Drop and Dump) Console.

I decided to erase my PCs.