Alright, I'll try to keep it relatively brief but there's a lot of things I've tried and done with this drive and I want to paint a full picture to help narrow the amount of suggestions.
I borrowed a co-workers flash drive for a work project. The drive is a cheap micro center bulk 64GB drive. I had to create a multi-boot drive for this project and this was the drive I was working on. I think this flash drive was on its last leg because it was running very slow and I had issues formatting the drive and copying iso files with media creation utilities. Here's my problem, the drive no longer works and I'm having a hell of a time recovering it. I think I caused the issue when I attempted to put a bootable image on it. It was in the middle of clearing the the MBR when the computer soft locked. It had done this several times with other software and I removed it from the port (I know, really dumb) to make the computer respond to anything because, if I didn't, windows explorer would always crash and I'd have issues formatting and setting up a partition. After that, it didn't work.
Troubleshooting:
It shows up in device manager as a portable device when plugged in.
It shows up as a device in disk manager but there is no media to create a partition in.
I checked diskpart and the drive shows up.
Also in diskpart, there is a volume shown for this drive that has a size of 0 bytes but is assigned a drive letter.
I tried using clean in diskpart but that gave me this error : "Virtual Disk Service error: There is no media in the device."
I tried chkdsk on the drive and got this error: "Cannot open volume for direct access."
Additionally, I've used a couple 3rd part partition management apps including EaseUS, HDDGURU:HDDLLF, and the Transcend software suggested in another thread. None of these software utilities recognize the drive.
As for stuff I know of but haven't tried, I was looking at using a linux distro to perform a low level format but I'm not very familiar with linux and I couldn't find much helpful information on how to format a flash drive with many of these threads contradicting each other.
I appreciate any help you guys could give me and I want to make it clear that I'm aware the drive is probably dead. However, if there is anything you can think of to try, I'd appreciate the info more out of curiosity at this point.
I borrowed a co-workers flash drive for a work project. The drive is a cheap micro center bulk 64GB drive. I had to create a multi-boot drive for this project and this was the drive I was working on. I think this flash drive was on its last leg because it was running very slow and I had issues formatting the drive and copying iso files with media creation utilities. Here's my problem, the drive no longer works and I'm having a hell of a time recovering it. I think I caused the issue when I attempted to put a bootable image on it. It was in the middle of clearing the the MBR when the computer soft locked. It had done this several times with other software and I removed it from the port (I know, really dumb) to make the computer respond to anything because, if I didn't, windows explorer would always crash and I'd have issues formatting and setting up a partition. After that, it didn't work.
Troubleshooting:
It shows up in device manager as a portable device when plugged in.
It shows up as a device in disk manager but there is no media to create a partition in.
I checked diskpart and the drive shows up.
Also in diskpart, there is a volume shown for this drive that has a size of 0 bytes but is assigned a drive letter.
I tried using clean in diskpart but that gave me this error : "Virtual Disk Service error: There is no media in the device."
I tried chkdsk on the drive and got this error: "Cannot open volume for direct access."
Additionally, I've used a couple 3rd part partition management apps including EaseUS, HDDGURU:HDDLLF, and the Transcend software suggested in another thread. None of these software utilities recognize the drive.
As for stuff I know of but haven't tried, I was looking at using a linux distro to perform a low level format but I'm not very familiar with linux and I couldn't find much helpful information on how to format a flash drive with many of these threads contradicting each other.
I appreciate any help you guys could give me and I want to make it clear that I'm aware the drive is probably dead. However, if there is anything you can think of to try, I'd appreciate the info more out of curiosity at this point.
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