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I have a 32 GB USB stick. I was in Mac (VMWare) putting some stuff on. Then accidentally removed the drive. I put it back in, and wanted to format it. Using disk utility, I chose 1 partition, it automatically filled in 312 GB and I just clicked format or whatever. It didn't take long, then I could see the progress bar hanging at "Waiting for device to reconnect". Nothing happened for a while so I ejected it. Now comes the problem:

In Disk Utility (Mac): No sign of the USB drive.

In Paragon Partition Manager (Windows): No sign of the USB drive.

In Disk Manager (Windows): I can see that it's there. But it says: Disk 1 Removable (D:) No Media. When I right click it, I can only assign drive letters to it. No way to format.

In diskpart (Windows): diskpart list will show me the following: Disk 1, Status: No Media, Total Size: 0 B. When I eject the drive, the disk 1 will disappear. So I know that it's this drive. If I type clean, it will say that "There is no media in the device".

In HDD Low Level Format Tool 4.25 (Windows): Doesn't detect it at all.

In Device Manager (Windows): It is detected as USB Mass Storage Device.

In Gparted (Linux): Doesn't detect it.

In HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.1.8 (Windows): It detects device as: "GENERIC USB Mass Storage 1.00 (0 MB) (D:)". When I press Start it gives me this error: "There is no media in the specified device"

In BIOS: Detected

In Spinrite (Live Boot): Doesn't detect it

Any help is appreciated.

Glorfindel
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Abdullah Gheith
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I've had lots of success with HP's usb tools when I have bricked my USB drive.

Try this link.

Hm, if this didn't work, I may have given you the wrong link as the tool I used to recover multiple dead flash drives with the same problems was a few years old, I'll try to find the right one.

Ilan Biala
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You seem to have exhausted the free tools and the only thing I can suggest if the drive is important is to try Spinrite though it is quite expensive, it often works where others utilities fail. It regularly recovers drives that seem beyond hope. It will work on USB disks as long as you BIOS supports them.

Honestly though, I think that it's a write-off. I have one that is dead too.

Julian Knight
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Please try using Partition Wizard

If the drive is showing on it, delete the existing partition and create a new one. Hope it will work.

Unnikrishnan
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I'm quite convinced you completely borked your USB drive. After all, a USB pen-drive is little more than an SD card. Given how terrible QA testing they have on those devices, it would be interesting to know what exact brand and model you used? Finally, there must be a good reason why you need to enter the size when formatting...

If there is something of extreme value on that stick, you could try to interface directly with FTL by trying to find a serial line on the chip or nearby. Perhaps you could flash a new FW to it?

not2qubit
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If the drive is visible under *nix like systems in /dev folder, I would try to zero it by dd or pv. Then try to make it usable (create partition). Sometimes it help.

pbies
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