corrupt 20 Gb USB is probably corrupt. No information on drive, cannot format.

[AHybridWolf]

20 Gb USB is probably corrupt. No information on drive, cannot format.

 

Here's all the photo's I managed to pull.

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Basically, I need to format this USB Drive. It has about 20 Gigs of storage on it, only 5 Gigs of which were used for games that I can just copy over again.

I do not know what caused this USB Drive to malfunction or corrupt itself but for all I know, it may be serious.

 

Thanks in the future for helping,

- Wolf

 

[AshleyAshes]

Solution: Buy a new one.

[Guest]

Pull it out and put it in a different port. Then use disk partition tool to delete the current partition and create a new one, then format it. should work.

If it doesnt the only other solution is to buy a new one.

[Ryujin2003]

1 minute ago, AshleyAshes said:

Solution: Buy a new one.

Alternate solution: don't put important things in USB without backing up.

 

You were playing games of a USB?

[AHybridWolf]

Don't really want to.

Want to try and see if this one is salvagelable first,

Wouldn't that be logical?

[AHybridWolf]

1 minute ago, Ryujin2003 said:

You were playing games of a USB?

No, I put game setup files on the USB As a portable game setup launcher for multiple games.

I had Dishonored 1,

Mark Of the Ninja and thats it.

[manikyath]

wait.. so its capacity is 20GB or is it the amount of data that was on it? because that would already sound sketchy..

 

past that, if this isnt a hardware defect, maybe flashing the firmware of the controller could work, but you're essentially on your own with that one, because you'll need to open up the stick to figure out which controller it is using, find a firmware and a tool to flash it probably on the russian interwebz, then attempt to flash it.

[AHybridWolf]

4 minutes ago, Almostbauws said:

Pull it out and put it in a different port. Then use disk partition tool to delete the current partition and create a new one, then format it. should work.

If it doesnt the only other solution is to buy a new one.

Trying it now.

[AHybridWolf]

Just now, manikyath said:

wait.. so its capacity is 20GB or is it the amount of data that was on it? because that would already sound sketchy..

 

past that, if this isnt a hardware defect, maybe flashing the firmware of the controller could work, but you're essentially on your own with that one, because you'll need to open up the stick to figure out which controller it is using, find a firmware and a tool to flash it probably on the russian interwebz, then attempt to flash it.

The USB Is 25 Gb I believe.

I did not store 25 Gigs of data on the USB, I don't have that many files..

[AHybridWolf]

Disk Partition doesnt seem to find the USB. Will try on all ports to see if it can find it. The USB1 Is my other USB.

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[AHybridWolf]

USB Is recognised in File Explorer, not in disk partitioning??

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[AHybridWolf]

Weird Stuff, using USB Properties to diagnose the device now...

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[AHybridWolf]

 

 

Nevermind, Windows is the problem? Pretty sure it's the USB messing up.

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[Husky]

try opening cmd, type diskpart and press enter, type list disk and press enter, find the USB in the list, type select disk * replace the star* with the number of the usb in list disk and then type clean and press enter. then open Disk Management, press MBR if it asks you. It should appear as a black disk that says unallocated. right click and say new simple volume and then go next next use FAT32 or exFAT and put quick format ON otherwise it will take forever. It should work now

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, AHybridWolf said:

USB Is recognised in File Explorer, not in disk partitioning??

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dont look in the volumes scroll down the page where you see the drives.

[AHybridWolf]

1 minute ago, Almostbauws said:

dont look in the volumes scroll down the page where you see the drives.

Thanks, currently have another problem from Husky's way. Will do it now in a second...

[JoostinOnline]

Do you have to recover the files?  I have a possible solution, but it will take a long ass time to write it out and if there's no point then I don't want to.

[AHybridWolf]

7 minutes ago, Husky said:

try opening cmd, type diskpart and press enter, type list disk and press enter, find the USB in the list, type select disk * replace the star* with the number of the usb in list disk and then type clean and press enter. then open Disk Management, press MBR if it asks you. It should appear as a black disk that says unallocated. right click and say new simple volume and then go next next use FAT32 or exFAT and put quick format ON otherwise it will take forever. It should work now

I did what you asked, although i ran into a problem.

 

Jeez this is one little retaliant USB...

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[AHybridWolf]

1 minute ago, JoostinOnline said:

Do you have to recover the files?  I have a possible solution, but it will take a long ass time to write it out and if there's no point then I don't want to.

No, the files on the USB are of no concern to me, they can burn in the fiery pits of hell, I just need the USB Working again.

[AHybridWolf]

8 minutes ago, Almostbauws said:

dont look in the volumes scroll down the page where you see the drives.

 

Okay yeah, I see it in the disks, only thing, I don't know what to do with it, I can't directly like delete the partition if I right click and go into properties and stuff. It's indestructible?!?

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[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, AHybridWolf said:

 

Okay yeah, I see it in the disks, only thing, I don't know what to do with it, I can't directly like delete the partition if I right click and go into properties and stuff. It's indestructible?!?

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If you right click on the unallocated section, what options do you get?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, AHybridWolf said:

 

Okay yeah, I see it in the disks, only thing, I don't know what to do with it, I can't directly like delete the partition if I right click and go into properties and stuff. It's indestructible?!?

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right click on the "29.10GB unallocated" and click new simple volume, and do all of that setup.

[AHybridWolf]

1 minute ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

If you right click on the unallocated section, what options do you get?

I get...

"New SImple Volume" (not greyed out)

"New Spanned Volume" (greyed out)

"New Striped Volume" (greyed out)

"New Mirrored Volume" (greyed out)

"New RAID-5 Volume" (greyed out)

"Properties" (not greyed out)

"Help" (not greyed out)

 

 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Just now, AHybridWolf said:

I get...

"New SImple Volume" (not greyed out)

"New Spanned Volume" (greyed out)

"New Striped Volume" (greyed out)

"New Mirrored Volume" (greyed out)

"New RAID-5 Volume" (greyed out)

"Properties" (not greyed out)

"Help" (not greyed out)

 

 

Create a new simple volume and follow the setup wizard. Drive should be ready to use after that. 

[JoostinOnline]

1 minute ago, AHybridWolf said:

No, the files on the USB are of no concern to me, they can burn in the fiery pits of hell, I just need the USB Working again.

Okay, for this process you are going to need another USB drive.  Borrow or steal one if you don't already have one.

1. Install EaseUS Todo Backup.
2. Plug in the working drive ONLY.
3. Format the working flash drive as NTFS and save a single text file on it.
4. Use Todo Backup to create a backup image of it (not just a file backup)
5. Close Todo Backup
6. Unplug the flash drive and plug the corrupt one in.
7. Open Todo Backup
8. Restore the image you just created to the broken drive.

Hopefully, that will fix your issue. This has happened to me several times before, and that's the only way I've found to fix it.