New flash drive issues?

[striker477]

Just bought a new flash drive and opened the package stuck it in my computer it chimes saying it's recognized I go into file explorer to access it but it goes into a loading loop. Try to open disc management and it gets stuck on loading disc configuration information. Tried it on another pc with the same result. 

Is the drive broken or does anyone know what the issue could potentially be? 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Format it?

[striker477]

Just now, v0nn_toaster said:

Format it?

That is what I was thinking but,i  was trying to get into disc management to format it and I cant right click and format from file explorer nothing happens and nothing seems to pop up upon inserting the drive prompting it needs to be formatted. 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, striker477 said:

That is what I was thinking but,i  was trying to get into disc management to format it and I cant right click and format from file explorer nothing happens and nothing seems to pop up upon inserting the drive prompting it needs to be formatted. 

put it in a different USB port?

[striker477]

4 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

put it in a different USB port?

Tried two usb ports on two different pcs I even tried  a usb 2.0 port. 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, striker477 said:

Tried two usb ports on two different pcs I even tried  a usb 2.0 port. 

hmm. does it show up in your BIOS?

[striker477]

8 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

hmm. does it show up in your BIOS?

Yes bios sees it is generic usb device with the correct capacity. 

[hardtofindinthefuture]

Just now, striker477 said:

Yes bios sees it is generic usb device with the correct capacity. 

i think you can format drives in your bios. try that?

[striker477]

58 minutes ago, v0nn_toaster said:

i think you can format drives in your bios. try that?

I was unsuccessful in finding the ability to do that.

 

Edit: Not entirely sure what just happened no matter what I tried windows didn't want to format it but I just so happened to think of trying my ancient ubuntu machine and sure enough it had no problems formated right away stuck back into both my windows pcs and it works like a charm. Never would have guessed and not sure why that mattered...