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I have a 16Gb flash drive, was working fine till it just someday stopped working, when i plug it the drivers are loaded, but i can't see it the "explorer" i went to "Disk managment" but this is what i get: disk

as u see the flash drive name is (Disque 1) (sorry it in French) and under F:

when i go to cmd and type: Formt F: i get Can not open volume for direct access. i even tried: chkdsk F: /F /X i got the same message

i tried to use the DiskPart utility, here s what i've done:

List disk Select Disk 1 Clean i get: Virtual Disk Service Error. There is no media in the device.

Does this means the my drive is broken forever? and there can't be a way to fix it?

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Ouerghi Yassine
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The only way to know if it's broken is to use gnome-disk-utility with a Linux and mount the device.

If not, try to use gparted and see if the filesystem/partition have any errors.

Can you still see which sdX is your usb-key with gnome-disk-utility, is it even detected ?(also named Disks or palimpsest)

I suggest you to backup and format your usb drive with the dd command, to make your usb key completey erased.

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