Formatted disk, windows says "Please insert disk" when I try to open it.

[buttermere]

I formatted my USB drive by right clicking > format > then did a full format of the disk.

I then opened diskpart and cleaned the disk.

Now when I right click > Properties it shows the disk as having 0 bytes:

When I try to open it I get the alert "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (G: )"

Diskpart shows the drive as having 58GB space. The picture below gives much more detail.

It's a transcend 64GB USB 3.0 drive that's about 4 years old. It has worked perfectly until now.

Any help much appreciated.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there buttermere,

Could you provide a screenshot of Disk Management?
I believe you can go to Disk Management and partition and format the drive: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=l5L6AA

Let me know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[buttermere]

Hi D_Know_WD, thanks for your quick response.

Here is the screenshot of Disk Management:

The link you posted didn't work in firefox so I opened it in Chrome, which shortened it to this: http://support.wdc.com/KnowledgeBase/answer.aspx?ID=3865

I've also added a screenshot of the disk properties to my first post.

09.12am EDIT

D_Know_WD has saved the day! I followed the instructions on the link you sent and allocated a new partition/volume.

Disk Management now shows this:

Properties now shows this:

Many thanks

 

[SkyNetRising]

With clean command you removed all partition information from your flash drive.
You need to recreate that partition.

BTW - formating before cleaning was pointless.

 

[jasonkaler]

in diskpart, on the disk, create a partition
type: "create partition primary"

 

[D_Know_WD]

Yeah, just pick your OS(from the link) and follow the instructions.
You need to partition and format the drive.

Edit: I've just saw that you've sorted this out.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD