I'm sure there are many ideas around, but I want to hear your opinion
so there is one USB stick that I noticed started mocking about errors when
booting off.
It's giving you more feedback than one of mine did. It just timed out on all I/O operations, during an attempted Mint 20 Install (making me think Mint was more Defective than it is. [Disclaimer: It does what it needs to do, and is good for a beginner]).
Finally, I smelled a rat, aborted the Mint install and tried to read it on a different machine.
I ran badblocks (without options) and then with -s -n and this produced a
slightly different output.
Is the output resulting from the options or is something really wrong with
the USB
They go bad often. I won't even purchase one from FedEx Office anymore, after so many of theirs failed.
I agree with the other response: Yes!
If no should I try reformat it
Try that, only for the humor of it. (I would be surprised if it worked after that).
You too.
Kenneth Parker