Can't get a USB working

WhatComesAround · February 17, 2019

Ok so. First of all. This is the ONLY stick we have that has more than 8gb of storage. I reformatted it in the past but since then it has not worked. I have tried all kinds of things but nothing seems to work. The computer still recognizes it but for some reason I cannot reformat this thing to make it useful. I could really use some help because unless I get this thing working I won't be able to get windows installed in the next few days.

Here's what disk manager shows:

What should I try?

BobVonBob · February 17, 2019

Right click on it and select "simple volume", that should take you to the volume creation tool. Format as exFAT.

WhatComesAround · February 18, 2019

On 2/17/2019 at 6:32 PM, BobVonBob said:

Right click on it and select "simple volume", that should take you to the volume creation tool. Format as exFAT.

didn't work but I ended up using an external hard drive