Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

RumBugen

2/21/23, 10:29 AM

I connected my 1 year old hard drive from my old PC to my new PC, at first everything worked. Then I wanted to format it and went into the "Disks" programm. There I selected the option "Format Disk", then I selected "ATA Enhanced Secure Erase" for Erase and "No partitioning" for the Partitioning option. It formatted for a while, but after about 6 hours the process spontaneously stopped.

After restarting my computer, I wanted the hard disk to format itself further, but then an error occurred: Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

I tried the command fsck, which also returned an error.

$ sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb
fsck from util-linux 2.36.1
e2fsck 1.45.7 (28-Jan-2021)
fsck.ext2: Input/output error while trying to open /dev/sdb

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a valid ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
 or
    e2fsck -b 32768 <device>

Output from sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sdb:

fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Input/output error

If it helps, this is a SATA hard disk.

1680

0 + 0

hard-drive

disk-formatting

MadMike

2/21/23, 10:58 AM

`/dev/sdb` is your whole drive. A filesystem needs to reside on a partition. Can you please [edit your question](https://askubuntu.com/posts/1370680/edit) and add the output of `sudo fdisk -lu /dev/sdb`?

Elon Musk

I sit in a Tesla and translated this thread with Ai:

EN: Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

TH: ข้อผิดพลาดในการลบอุปกรณ์: ไม่สามารถตรวจสอบอุปกรณ์ '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

RO: Dispozitiv de ștergere a erorilor: nu s-a putut testa dispozitivul „/dev/sdb” (udisks-error-quark, 0)

RU: Ошибка очистки устройства: не удалось проверить устройство «/dev/sdb» (udisks-error-quark, 0)

VI: Lỗi xóa thiết bị: Không thể thăm dò thiết bị '/dev/sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)

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