Can't open or format a USB key

Zascar · 16-03-2014 03:17PM #1

I bought two lexar usb keys and wa using them for reformatting pc's - I was mounting windows iso's on them. One has totally stopped responding. I put it in and it show;s up as "Removable Disk" - clicking on it says "Please inset disk into removable disk (E:)"

I can't seem to format it either.

Any idea how to fix this?

HereIBe · 16-03-2014 03:29PM

Try this stuff

Zascar · 16-03-2014 04:29PM

Thnaks, that's perfect it worked!

So while ont eh subject I have an SD card that is 8gb but only shows as 1gb. Went into disk management tried to format it but only part of it is there, the rest I cant seem to do anything

Any ideas?

riclad · 16-03-2014 09:28PM

I think you could just format the second partition ,in control ,panel, admin, storage .
format in fat32, filesystem ,same as the first partition.

i do this on hardrives,
eg resize,ing partitions.
after partition is formatted,to 6.24 fat32
use free program Gparted to resize the 1st partition. to fill up the full 8gig disk.
i NEVER used it on an sd card .
Theres probably programs you can download to format sdcards.

riclad · 16-03-2014 10:12PM

IF you are gonna use Gparted ,reboot pc first,
after format of partition 2 is complete.

Can't open or format a USB key

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