Messed up USB drive

[Kartoffel2]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to update my Hackintosh to catalina since it's still on High Sierra.
Therefore, I bought a brand new usb drive, which I formated under windows.
Unibeast told me to format the drive in macos extended journaled.
I went to diskpart and started the process according to the unibeast guide.
At this point I got an error which I don't remember exactly, saying something like "failed to create the partition table".
I thought I could just try again, so unfortunatly I didn't take a picture of the error.
Sadly, the drive doesn't show up anywhere anymore.
Its gone in diskpart, in Windows using diskpart/listdisk and even in gparted under Linux.

Since I didn't keep the bill, I can't exchange it for a new one.
This isn't really a hackintosh problem, but I have no further ideas at this point and I refuse to just throw the not even used drive in the trash.

Thx for help, it's well appreciated.

Cheers
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Also I don't know if this is the right place to post this, so anyone feel free to move the thread where it belongs

 

[P1LGRIM]

Please read and comply with the rules, in particular the one regarding profiles.
Link to profile - Just three items - Motherboard (or prebuilt system), Processor (CPU) and Graphics.

You don't need a USB flash drive to upgrade from High Sierra to Catalina.
Make sure that first you :

Backup​

Update Clover​

Update Lilu/WhateverGreen/AppleALC kexts.​

Then download and install OS update from the App Store.​

 

[Kartoffel2]

Thanks for the advice, unfortunately I can't get passed the Backup
I copied my entire drive to another new drive using Superduper. I used the clover configurator to mount the EFI partition on the new drive and installed the latest clover from the download section onto the new drive. I then replaced the config.plist file with the working one from the old drive. However, the pc just won't boot from the new drive . It's telling me to reboot and select a proper boot device, did I miss something? Just to add: I can boot into the system on the new drive using clover from the old drive, so that part went alright...
Also I hope my profile comply with the rules now

 

[Kartoffel2]

In case anyone comes across this, I managed to fix the drive using this fix:

Reboot and select proper boot device or insert.. Sierra disk

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