Windows installs drivers and detects USB stick, but wont display it as having any storage medium.

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

The usb drive appears in disk management, but says there's no storage medium on it, and all the pc's and electronics I've tried it on don't work. It's a 64gb kingston usb stick that was working only a few days ago.

[burnttoastnice]

If it's detected in disk management but is basically behaving like an empty CD rom, your flash drive might be fried unfortunately . I've had a few kingston drives die on me in the past (exclusively their DataTraveller 100 G3 range) so be very cautious with their stuff. Sandisk's reliability has been legendary though, I use one of their cruzer usb flash drives as the bootdrive of my webserver (Yes I'm aware of flash wear and all of that juju before I get attacked for my ghettoness - and don't worry the important data is stored on hard drives in raid 1) and it's never had any issues.

[Zodiark1593]

Flash drives tend to die suddenly it seems. My Patriot drive and SD cards failed similarly too, worked one minute, dead the next. (literally, my OtG drive was used on my phone, then plugged it into a PC, and it lived no more).

 

You could try a reformat dia disk management, though I am skeptical to it's success.

[H0R53]

4 hours ago, ♠FlamieMeister♠ said:

The usb drive appears in disk management, but says there's no storage medium on it, and all the pc's and electronics I've tried it on don't work. It's a 64gb kingston usb stick that was working only a few days ago.

Does it show up as 2XXX PRAM Device? I have a 256GB USB3 drive I formatted as UEFI and now it does the same thing. Unfortunately there's no easy way to fix it, however I got a 64GB Sandisk at Target for $10.