USB stick broken?

[Klaus Pieper <kfpieper@web.de>]

Hi debian gurus,

A colleague gave me an usb stick she considers broken since she cannot 
access it with windoze any more.

With debian I get

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB Flash Disk    Rev: 7.78
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

groucho64:~# fdisk /dev/sdb

Unable to open /dev/sdb

fdisk -l only shows my harddisks.


I have another stick which works, so it's not an issue with my setup.

Is there any chance to use the thing again? She does not need the data.

Thanks,
Klaus