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And having to go through this insanity each time is even worse

Is this advice insane or am I missing something

> to fix your busted drive, just nuke the boot sector and send it

> bash

> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx bs=512 count=1 conv=notrunc

I often do that (with a larger prefix, like 1MB) to reset flash drives with weird partitioning.