Can't format USB stick

[Qwerty-space]

Hello!

I have an 8GB USB 3.0 stick and I can't format or open it. It went corrupt a while ago, and it crashes windows explorer when I right click on it. After a while the context menu will open and I can click format and it took forever to open. I clicked format, and it took forever just to tell me that it can't format it.

I noticed in the formatting menu that it couldn't figure out the capacity either, but in MiniTool partition wizard it tells me that it is 7.21GB.

Is there anything I can do to be able to use this USB stick again?

Thanks.

 

[Mr5oh]

Sounds like your flash drive died.

One last test would be to try and format it in Linux.

If this doesn't work, it sounds like it's time to a buy a new one.

 

[spiketheaardvark]

Try Cleaning out the usb plug. I had one quit working on me last month and I thought it was just dead, but cleaning out the plug (especially if it has spent a lot of time in your pocket) brought it back to life.

 

[Qwerty-space]

Sounds like your flash drive died.

One last test would be to try and format it in Linux.

If this doesn't work, it sounds like it's time to a buy a new one.

I've tried some other tools, like xplorer^2 and CCleaner, but they both crash when trying to do stuff with it.

CCleaner says this when I try to erase it.
http://puu.sh/hwtvs/5f07b3c504.png

 

[Qwerty-space]

Try Cleaning out the usb plug. I had one quit working on me last month and I thought it was just dead, but cleaning out the plug (especially if it has spent a lot of time in your pocket) brought it back to life.

Somehow I doubt the plug (I think you mean the computer's USB port) is the issue, as I have tried it on multiple computers and multiple ports. Besides, I have dust covers over my USB slots.

 

[Godloki]

did you try formatting it through command line? format g:

 

[Qwerty-space]

did you try formatting it through command line? format g:

It says "Insert new disk for drive H:
and press ENTER when ready..."

Then I press enter and.... Nothing.

UPDATE: It did something:

The type of the file system is RAW
The new type of file system is FAT.
Verifying 0.0 Bytes
The specified cluster size is too big for FAT
Format failed

 

[Vladimir Aquino]

make sure you're formatting the flash drive to fat32 or ntfs you may be picking a format that isn't supported by your flashdrive.

 

[Qwerty-space]

make sure you're formatting the flash drive to fat32 or ntfs you may be picking a format that isn't supported by your flashdrive.

I chose NTFS when using format in windows explorer. How do I choose fat32 in cmd?

 

[Godloki]

convert H: /FS:FAT32 /NoSecurity