When Mac users try to format an external hard drive like seagate SSD, Samsung SSD or flash drive using terminal diskutil command it shows error message like “Error: -69760: Disk erase failed with the error Unable to write to the last block of the device”.

Fix 1:-

  • Connect your external USB disk into a Linux box or Ubuntu and partition it.
  • Then plug the disk back into the Mac. You can format the Linux created partition with Journaled HFS+.

Fix 2 :-

Try to use 3rd party partition manager apps like GPARTED Live or iPartition apps. These apps will erase your externa; drive and as a new partition.

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Fix 3:- (For Windows users/PC)

You can fix a corrupted USB in Windows 7 or 8.

  • Click the start button.
  • Type and Enter “cmd” in search field.
  • In command window type “diskpart” and click Enter button.
  • Then type “list disk” and click Enter.
  • Note the disk number associated and note the space that best matches your USB space.
  • Next type “select disk 1” (use the disk number instead of 1), click Enter.
  • After that type “clean” and click Enter.
  • Type “create partition primary” and click Enter.
  • Type “active” and click Enter.
  • Type “select partition 1” and click Enter.
  • Type “format fs=fat32” and click Enter. Now this command start formatting your device.

Suggestion:

  • Restart your mac from Apple menu, and reboot in recovery mode. Then reformat the external drive using disk utility from the recovery partition. It worked like a charm!
  • Run disk utility from the recovery partition. And format drive in normal would and boot it.

Also try to format your external hard drive with Disk Utility.

Guys I hope this will work you to solve the problem. And if you have any other solutions, let’s me know in the comment section below.