Corrupted LUKS/ cryptsetup on a USB

[espinobj]

There is a bit of a back story here so please hold the snickering till the end I also preface this with Im by no means a linux expert but Im learning and well we all have to start some where right.

Installed i386 Gnome. fully encrypted on its own usb. Wouldn't boot found a previous post with the issue and used this fix.

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 sda1_crypt
(enter password)
lvm vgchange -ay
exit

Also edited the crypttab file and ran

update-initramfs -u

And here is the like for anyone who has issues booting encrypted.
http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...-fails-to-boot

Now at this point every thing is working great. Till I realize I havnt restarted in like a month. No big deal shut down for the night and came back wanted to get back to playing around...

Feel free to begin heckling.

I remembered my encrypted password no problem.
My root password for the life of my I couldn't remember. I tried no joke several hundred times.
Looking back on the situation I should of just booted the live CD and mounted the usb and fixed the password issue (not sure how but im sure a little googling could of produced an answer)

Awwwwww yet I didnt. I thought might as well re-install Kali. The idea was I installed the 32 bit version I have a 64 bit this seems like the right time to fix this.
The disk wipe failed due to I believe it was a I/O error.

I moved the USB to the desktop and tried to wipe it and write "0's" and that failed used EaseUS partition Mgr, Windows disk Manager. Moved to a live CD (bootit bare metal) partition manager to try to format it or to wipe it. Again failed. I brought it back to a Kali live CD tried to run

blkid

Disk doesnt pull up.

Im sure everyone is looking at me like... this guy

Any help would be nice I would like my thumbdrive back

Thumbdrive is a CORSAIR Flash Voyager 32GB USB 3.0
Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite
Running Pentium T4500
4GB RAM
It is a 64 bit system

[espinobj]

root@kali:~# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd77841c8

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *      206848   625137476   312465314+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

root@kali:~# blkid
/dev/sr0: LABEL="Kali Live" TYPE="iso9660" 
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" 
root@kali:~#

Both were with my USB plugged in. My usb should be /dev/sdb5

[espinobj]

root@kali:~# ls /dev/sd*
/dev/sda  /dev/sda1  /dev/sdb
root@kali:~# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04f2:b1d6 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
root@kali:~# tail -f /var/log/messages
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.982744] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.983545] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 156 512-byte logical blocks: (79.8 kB/78.0 KiB)
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.983917] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.984289] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.991538]  sdb: unknown partition table
Aug  3 12:08:51 localhost kernel: [ 1077.993915] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Aug  3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.116140] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 7
Aug  3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.120059] scsi 8:0:0:0: killing request
Aug  3 12:09:26 localhost kernel: [ 1113.121402] sdb: detected capacity change from 79872 to 0
Aug  3 12:09:30 localhost kernel: [ 1117.024126] usb 5-1: new full-speed USB device number 6 using uhci_hcd

[espinobj]

[ 1643.112096] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 9 using ehci_hcd
[ 1643.236106] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 1655.692377] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 1655.964109] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci_hcd
[ 1656.504077] usb 1-6: device not accepting address 11, error -71
[ 1656.616083] usb 1-6: new high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[ 1656.750612] usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0368
[ 1656.750619] usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1656.750625] usb 1-6: Product: USB FLASH DRIVER
[ 1656.750629] usb 1-6: Manufacturer: eEver
[ 1656.751262] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-6:1.0
[ 1657.868105] usb 1-6: USB disconnect, device number 12
[ 1658.116054] usb 5-2: new full-speed USB device number 7 using uhci_hcd
[ 1658.236063] usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 1658.491115] usb 5-2: Parent hub missing LPM exit latency info.  Power management will be impacted.
[ 1658.496118] usb 5-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
[ 1658.534113] usb 5-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1e4e, idProduct=0368
[ 1658.534120] usb 5-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1658.534125] usb 5-2: Product: USB FLASH DRIVER
[ 1658.534130] usb 5-2: Manufacturer: eEver
[ 1658.537314] scsi10 : usb-storage 5-2:1.0
[ 1659.540175] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  USB Flash Drive  1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 1659.541584] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 1659.546925] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 156 512-byte logical blocks: (79.8 kB/78.0 KiB)
[ 1659.549145] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1659.549155] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: bf 00 00 00
[ 1659.556152] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 1659.598142]  sdb: unknown partition table
[ 1659.619153] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

I hope all of this code helps. Thank you.

[marmot]

I know its been a little while since you asked this, but no one else has answered so I thought I might - assuming you haven't figured this out already...

Have you tried deleting (and recreating) partition table using something like gparted? If you can't format it, it's likely you have some odd IO error thing happening, maybe someone else might have a clue?