Can't format a USB Stick

[Javp2702]

I have a USB 3.0 USB Stick that I used as a boot drive for installing a Linux Distro on a older laptop. Now i want to format it to use it a s a USB Stick again, but neither windows nor linux let me.

On windows, the message reads "Windows was unable to complete the format". I tried on disk manager, and the same thing. The drive is recognized by windows, but cant access it. I went to the comand line as an administrator and ran disk manager and nothing. It says that the media is write protected. I tried to change that on the regristry editor, adding a storage device policy, and nothing.

I tried on my linux machine, running a distro based in ubuntu, and now it recognizes the disk and i can actually get into it and saw the files, but i cant make changes nor format it either. The message that reads is that was an errorr shyncronizing after inicial wipe.

Is my little usb stick useless now? and only works as an boot drive?

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Javp2702 said:

Is my little usb stick useless now?

Yes. The controller inside the stick has determined that the flash-storage inside has degraded too much to be reliable for new writes to it anymore and has locked itself in read-only mode.

[Javp2702]

5 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Yes. The controller inside the stick has determined that the flash-storage inside has degraded too much to be reliable for new writes to it anymore and has locked itself in read-only mode.

Is that so? The stick is quite new, i used it a few times before and only used it as a boot drive once. Probably less than 10 overall uses

[WereCatf]

15 minutes ago, Javp2702 said:

Is that so? The stick is quite new, i used it a few times before and only used it as a boot drive once. Probably less than 10 overall uses

These things do happen. You just simply were unlucky.

[Master Disaster]

38 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Yes. The controller inside the stick has determined that the flash-storage inside has degraded too much to be reliable for new writes to it anymore and has locked itself in read-only mode.

This.

 

16 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

try hp usb format tool

Why? All that tool does is silently run Diskpart commands which is also exactly what Disk Manager does, and all Windows based partitioning tools for that matter. If Linux failed to format it then its more than likely beyond repair.

 

41 minutes ago, Javp2702 said:

I have a USB 3.0 USB Stick that I used as a boot drive for installing a Linux Distro on a older laptop. Now i want to format it to use it a s a USB Stick again, but neither windows nor linux let me.

On windows, the message reads "Windows was unable to complete the format". I tried on disk manager, and the same thing. The drive is recognized by windows, but cant access it. I went to the comand line as an administrator and ran disk manager and nothing. It says that the media is write protected. I tried to change that on the regristry editor, adding a storage device policy, and nothing.

I tried on my linux machine, running a distro based in ubuntu, and now it recognizes the disk and i can actually get into it and saw the files, but i cant make changes nor format it either. The message that reads is that was an errorr shyncronizing after inicial wipe.

Is my little usb stick useless now? and only works as an boot drive?

There is one possibility of bringing it back to life though there's no guarantee it will work.

 

https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

[WereCatf]

15 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

There is one possibility of bringing it back to life though there's no guarantee it will work.

 

https://hddguru.com/software/HDD-LLF-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

That tool doesn't do low-level formatting; all it does is just write to the storage-device from start to finish. You can achieve the same effect with Rufus, Linux's dd etc.

 

Low-level formatting, when it comes to HDDs, specifically refers to reinitializing the magnetic tracks on the platters from scratch and writing the track-initialization data down, including ECC. Alas, that has not been a thing for decades, modern drives literally cannot do that. Also, it's not possible to low-level format flash-based media at all; there is literally no way through software to revert physical degradation of the transistor-capacitor-pairs.

[WereCatf]

5 minutes ago, WikiForce said:

as they have 5 years warranty

I would like to know how, exactly, do you know how long warranty OP's device has, when OP never mentioned the brand or model to begin with.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, WikiForce said:

i was talking about my sandisk cruzer blade

Which is relevant wrt. OP's stick how?

[Javp2702]

Welp thanks for the responses guys, guess my kingston 30 gb stick will forever be a Zorin OS boot drive