My Hard disk was totally fine since I tried to format it using the 'ATA Enhanced Secure Erase' option on gnome disk utility. Now I can not formate or use it.
Every time I try to format it this error is showed: "Error wiping device: Failed to probe the device 'dev/-sdb' (udisks-error-quark, 0)"
1 Answer
Note you must have a PARTITION to format
(generally, with USB/Flash drives it may work without, but better have it there too for ease of use).
If you STILL have a problem after that; as I see /dev/sdb above,
try exactly this (to clear any invalid partitioning data):$ sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1
and then try to REDO the partitioning and format the relevant partition(s).
