Can't format USB

[Hassan170]

I was puttiin the windows installation tool on a cheapo USB i picke up for that specifc purpose and halfway thru windows media installer stopped saying there was a problem with drive.

and now the usb is unformatted/ in RAW storage format. Tryint to format in NTFS, FAT32 or exFAT doesnt work and simply just doesn't complete. 

Have i fuc*ed up my USB?

 

now to be clear i did buy a very cheap USB and this might simply be karma biting me in the ass but hopefully its still salvageable.

[SorryBella]

25 minutes ago, Hassan170 said:

Have i fuc*ed up my USB?

Narrator: Yes.

 

Maybe try to brute reformat it with something like Paragon?

[Hassan170]

17 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

Narrator: Yes.

 

Maybe try to brute reformat it with something like Paragon?

ok

[Hassan170]

1 hour ago, SorryClaire said:

Narrator: Yes.

 

Maybe try to brute reformat it with something like Paragon?

ok ive installed paragon and deleted the partition, should i try to format it now?

should i format it to FAT32(this comes up as default) or NTFS?

i plan on using this drive for windows installations

[SorryBella]

28 minutes ago, Hassan170 said:

ok ive installed paragon and deleted the partition, should i try to format it now?

should i format it to FAT32(this comes up as default) or NTFS?

i plan on using this drive for windows installations

I uses FAT32 on my MCT.

[Hassan170]

4 minutes ago, SorryClaire said:

I uses FAT32 on my MCT.

i will try reformatting to FAT32 then

 

[Hassan170]

3 hours ago, SorryClaire said:

Narrator: Yes.

 

Maybe try to brute reformat it with something like Paragon?

ok so tried to do the shortest wipe i could which was 4 hours and it interrupted something about I/O, and in my opinion i think these are dead. its not a big loss i gottem for a literally RM5 (1USD) so now i learned my lesson. maybe at somepoint ill go through the hassle of fixing these but ill just buy a proper cheapo usb 3.0 drive instead.

[Allan B]

5 minutes ago, Hassan170 said:

ok so tried to do the shortest wipe i could which was 4 hours and it interrupted something about I/O, and in my opinion i think these are dead. its not a big loss i gottem for a literally RM5 (1USD) so now i learned my lesson. maybe at somepoint ill go through the hassle of fixing these but ill just buy a proper cheapo usb 3.0 drive instead.

Was probably one of the USB drives where they claim it is more then it is actual is.  I believe Linus did a video on some cheap ones a while ago showing that exact problem, buy this cheap 4TB USB drive when it is only 512GB or something like that.

You could try just formatting it partially.. like if it is a 2TB drive for example, try creating a 512GB partition and formatting that..   Or if it a 16GB try an 8 GB partition

[Hassan170]

3 minutes ago, Allan B said:

Was probably one of the USB drives where they claim it is more then it is actual is.  I believe Linus did a video on some cheap ones a while ago showing that exact problem, buy this cheap 4TB USB drive when it is only 512GB or something like that.

You could try just formatting it partially.. like if it is a 2TB drive for example, try creating a 512GB partition and formatting that..   Or if it a 16GB try an 8 GB partition

it "claims" to be a 32GB Toshiba USB but is sold by a reseller.