USB Drive not recognised

donmeister

Hey there, I have a 4gb Transend Usb Thumb Drive, all going grand as of yesterday, now its not recognised by XP or a PS3,when I put it into my laptop the light flashes on the drive itself as if its being read,XP plugs n plays and I try to click on the drive in my computer but it just says 'Insert drive into (:E)'

I've tried changing the letter mapping of the drive and this did not work,possible virus? Thoughts?

horse7

Can i reopen this thread, i have a 8gb usb sandisk cruizer drive, it shows in device mamager as working and drivers up to date, but it will not open to show files if any or let me format if its blank, its a win 10 desktop, and i have other usb sandisk drives that are working fine, tried all the ports and also laptop, can anyone figure this out?

ED E

donmeister wrote: »

Thoughts?

XP?

horse7

Win 10

yoyo

Mod: I will leave this thread open for now. OP: Please create a new thread for issues in the future.

johndoe99

horse7 wrote: »

Can i reopen this thread, i have a 8gb usb sandisk cruizer drive, it shows in device mamager as working and drivers up to date, but it will not open to show files if any or let me format if its blank, its a win 10 desktop, and i have other usb sandisk drives that are working fine, tried all the ports and also laptop, can anyone figure this out?

showing up in Device Manager just means Windows 10 has detected a plug and play device has been inserted, that part can work and the storage part be damaged.

Open up 'Disk Management', select the Cruzer drive see if it's recognised as Healthy. Whether it is or not

right-click for properties / tools / error checking. See what results are, if it refuses to scan, there's damage.

horse7

Unfortunately it wont let me scan for errors.

johndoe99

the fact that your properties is greyed out would suggest it cannot be accessed as its damaged.

Mine is not greyed out:

horse7

Thanks, so theres no way to reformat it?

johndoe99

https://www.diskpart.com/articles/cant-format-flash-drive-1881.html

Try method 5.

horse7

Am going to wipe the data the programme tools wont give me the option to format

horse7

No success with this method, finally got it cracked with command prompt https://youtu.be/5zM1QpUem08.

FanadMan

horse7 wrote: »

No success with this method, finally got it cracked with command prompt https://youtu.be/5zM1QpUem08.

Back up your data to somewhere else and scrap that stick. You might get another while out of it but flash drives are disposable storage.

horse7

Definitely, only use this for music, great fun to see it works again.