I tried the setting of the front-end of the disk to zeros - no errors where reported. I then went to fdisk via fdisk /dev/sdb. It claims the disk still has a GPT. I may try the Windows route - seems like it shouldn't be that hard to reinitialize a disk in Raspian.

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I've been trying to do some things to change me exteral USB 1tb drive from GPT to MBR. I removed the partitions and then tried gdisk recovery option to change the disk to MBR, Now I have a disk that still appears to be GPT and it now also says I have a misaligned forced MBR. What I want to do, with ...

Those threads seem to be about the 8192eu, while mine is the 8188eu. There are also some things in those threads I don't understand (github, etc.). From using Ubuntu in the past I was familiar with needing the hearders, the build-essential package (I think that was mainly to get gcc and supporting f...

I finally got my Pi 2 this week. Downloaded NOOBS and install Raspian. I have a Realtek 8188eu based USB wireless adapter. With my Pi model B's I was able to download a firmware package someone else had already built. This driver won't work now - I assume part of the difference between the 2 Pi mode...