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Xtreme Gamer
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I was using BOOTICE to have multiple partitions on a flash drive and I repartitioned it a few times with the tool. But now I cant get a drive letter or name on it to open it up. I would get some of these messages when trying to do it.

 

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Any idea on how to fix it? Thanks for the help!!!!

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Windows will only read and work with the first part of a thumb drive naively, try minitools partition wizard(free third party tool).  

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2 minutes ago, RedWulf said:

Windows will only read and work with the first part of a thumb drive naively, try minitools partition wizard(free third party tool). 

 

I already tried aomei PA. And the drive only has one partition. Is there something else that can be attempted?

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4 minutes ago, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

I already tried aomei PA. And the drive only has one partition. Is there something else that can be attempted?

Nothing on it that you need? Try some tool to wipe/nuke it. I normally say dban because its famous, but google turns up some tools that can run in windows to wipe it.  

I cant say I've seen an error quite like that one before though, what do other programs say about formatting it? 

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Just now, RedWulf said:

Nothing on it that you need? Try some tool to wipe/nuke it. I normally say dban because its famous, but google turns up some tools that can run in windows to wipe it.  

I cant say I've seen an error quite like that one before though, what do other programs say about formatting it?

 

It disk management, file explorer, and aomei all say that they were unable to complete format. Also, I don't know how, but for about a minute (or until I unplugged the drive then plugged it back in) I somehow got the drive to work. But after unplugging and plugging it back in. It no longer works. When I plug it in currently and go to it in the file explorer, it says to please insert the usb flash drive.

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3 minutes ago, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

It disk management, file explorer, and aomei all say that they were unable to complete format. Also, I don't know how, but for about a minute (or until I unplugged the drive then plugged it back in) I somehow got the drive to work. But after unplugging and plugging it back in. It no longer works. When I plug it in currently and go to it in the file explorer, it says to please insert the usb flash drive.

Can you check it with aomei, then if that fails or doesnt turn up anything try just plainly wiping the partition  

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[I5-12600k | 32gb DDR5 6000 | RTX5070 | 2x1tb M.2]

 

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Just now, RedWulf said:

Can you check it with aomei, then if that fails or doesnt turn up anything try just plainly wiping the partition 

 

Wiping now, wish me luck.

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Just now, Xtreme Gamer said:

 

I already checked and tried to delete the partition in aomei and make a new partition, that didn't work.

Wipe is a little different than delete, to my understanding more complete. 

My only guess at this point is either a bad connection, in which case try plugging it in another point and jiggle it abit 

or

some odd corruption I lack knowledge of how to fix. 

 

At this point I personally would just boot into linux or clonzilla or another low level utility like DBAN and "nuke" or wipe the drive all together. 

If you dont like live booting or dont want to risk it then hopefully some higher user will be along soon   

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Just now, RedWulf said:

Wipe is a little different than delete, to my understanding more complete. 

My only guess at this point is either a bad connection, in which case try plugging it in another point and jiggle it abit 

or

some odd corruption I lack knowledge of how to fix. 

 

At this point I personally would just boot into linux or clonzilla or another low level utility like DBAN and "nuke" or wipe the drive all together. 

If you dont like live booting or dont want to risk it then hopefully some higher user will be along soon  

 

I don't care about any data loss on this specific flash drive, I just want it to work again.

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Just now, RedWulf said:

Wipe is a little different than delete, to my understanding more complete. 

My only guess at this point is either a bad connection, in which case try plugging it in another point and jiggle it abit 

or

some odd corruption I lack knowledge of how to fix. 

 

At this point I personally would just boot into linux or clonzilla or another low level utility like DBAN and "nuke" or wipe the drive all together. 

If you dont like live booting or dont want to risk it then hopefully some higher user will be along soon  

 

I am doing a wipe in aomei right now. I dont want to burn an iso image of anything else right now until I can verify that this one can work.

I7-6700k, Asus Maximus VIII Formula, 2 x 8GB Corsair Dominator Plantinum ram, ASUS GTX 960 STRIX, sound blaster zx, 1TB boot drive ssd, 128GB/256GB storage ssd, 1TB storage HDD, 4TB of storage (backup),Windows 10 Pro,1000w psu

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10 hours ago, RedWulf said:

Wipe is a little different than delete, to my understanding more complete. 

My only guess at this point is either a bad connection, in which case try plugging it in another point and jiggle it abit 

or

some odd corruption I lack knowledge of how to fix. 

 

At this point I personally would just boot into linux or clonzilla or another low level utility like DBAN and "nuke" or wipe the drive all together. 

If you dont like live booting or dont want to risk it then hopefully some higher user will be along soon  

 

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