Startup Disk Creator ruined my USB

[patagriff]

Startup Disk Creator ruined my USB drive. Now I cannot mount it, even with gparted. I downloaded Ubuntu 12.10 and used SDC (I don't see how I could have used it improperly. There's like 2 steps.) Machine wount boot from it. Can't mount it. What should I do?

[darkod]

Is this a usb hdd or usb stick?

You can connect it and see if it's recognized at all, try:
sudo parted -l (small L)

That should list all disks with their partitions including usb hdds/sticks.

[patagriff]

patrick@patrick-Aspire-5515:~$ sudo parted -l (small L)
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('
patrick@patrick-Aspire-5515:~$ sudo parted -l
[sudo] password for patrick:
Model: ATA WDC WD1600BEVT-2 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 157GB 157GB primary ext4 boot
2 157GB 160GB 2949MB extended
5 157GB 160GB 2949MB logical linux-swap(v1)


Model: Generic USB 2.0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 2073MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 2073MB 2073MB primary boot, lba


Error: /dev/sr0: unrecognised disk label

[darkod]

There it is, /dev/sdb, a 2GB stick. But it doesn't seem to have any filesystem on it.

If you don't have any important data on it, and I guess you don't because you just wanted to overwrite it with the ubuntu install files, simply make a new msdos table. After that you can use Gparted to create new FAT32 partition. The start up disc is best to have FAT32.

To make new empty table with parted:

sudo parted /dev/sdb
mklabel msdos
quit