Flash Drive Broke

[NexDeformedpoto]

I think I corrupted my flash drive because it wont show up in file explorer and when I try to format it in Disk Management it pops up "The system cannot find the fille specified". I tried to use diskpart and that didn't help. Any help as to maybe force it to format in FAT32, exFAT, NTFS would be apricated. (I don't care about hear about data loss)

[Electronics Wizardy]

That seems like a dead USB stick, and there isn't any fixing you can do here. Its probably gone read only and won't let you format.

 

Flash drives are cheap, I'd just buy a new one

[spunk.funk]

What commands in Diskpart did you do?
Try the Clean Command in Diskparrt.

Back in Disk Management, the flash drive should now be Unallocated Space.

Right click it and choose to make a new Simple Volume.

If that is successful, Format and give it a drive letter 

 

If this fails, the drive has Failed, and it needs to be replaced. Flash drives are notoriously volatile and fail often. It is not suggested to use as long term storage.  

[Kilrah]

I had the exact same error with an SD card yesterday, doing about anything to it on Windows would fail but I could create a new partition table and partition on linux, Windows sees it correctly now.