USB drive won't mount on any system after partitioning

TK492

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Hi,

Earlier this week I was formatting a 16GB Adata USB 3.0 stick to different filesystems trying to figure what would work best to copy files over to a Mac. In the process, I somehow "broke" it in the sense that it is not recognized by any of my computers. The last partitioning I did was NTFS I believe using GParted on Crunchbang Linux. After removing it, it was no longer detected when I plugged it back in. I've tried on the Mac (OS X Mavericks), a Windows 7 laptop (I ran diskmgmt.msc and it showed up there, but couldn't modify it) and another Fedora system (it only showed up in gnome-disk-manager as a NAND drive, but once again still couldn't edit anything).

As for under Crunchbang, it doesn't show up in the file manager like it used to and GParted doesn't detect it either. Here are some CLI outputs:

# fdisk -l
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000b17a5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   951615487   475806720   83  Linux
/dev/sda2       951617534   976771071    12576769    5  Extended
Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda5       951617536   976771071    12576768   82  Linux swap / Solaris

$ lsusb
Code:
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b3:310c IBM Corp. Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0518:0001 EzKEY Corp. USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.09
Bus 001 Device 041: ID 125f:312b A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd. Superior S102 Pro
Bus 001 Device 039: ID 0bb4:0ff9 HTC (High Tech Computer Corp.) Desire / Desire HD / Hero (Charge Mode)

# dmesg | grep usb
Code:
[166623.000017] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 40 using ehci_hcd
[166623.133206] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=125f, idProduct=312b
[166623.133210] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[166623.133213] usb 1-6: Product: ADATA USB Flash Drive
[166623.133215] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: ADATA
[166623.133217] usb 1-6: SerialNumber: 2332108450040137
[166623.133758] scsi34 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0


Would anyone know what's wrong or how to mount it properly so I can modify the drive? Feel free to ask for more info if needed, I'll provide it with pleasure.

Thanks for any help!