[SOLVED] [HELP] Flash Drive Undetected

[kidlatwarfreak]

Good day,

I recently bought a 2TB HP flash drive. The drive was in exFAT and I wanted to reformat it to be in NTFS since I work mostly with Windows. I don't know what happened but for some reason it does not work anymore. My PC still detects it but every time I will open it it just says "There is no disk in drive." I tried to reformat it using DISKPART and Disk Management but to no avail. I tried to reformat it in exFAT but it still won't work. I attached some screenshots when I tried to reformat it. Please help, I paid quite a fortune for this.

Thank you.

https://imgur.com/NR4UVMh

https://imgur.com/jRiosvi

https://imgur.com/7X4R1jS

 

[rgd1101]

What the model of this HP 2TB flash drive? can't find it on HP.com

 

[kidlatwarfreak]

What the model of this HP 2TB flash drive? can't find it on HP.com

It's this one. Unfortunately it doesn't have a model # on the packaging.

https://imgur.com/Fb8kkUG

 

[rgd1101]

buy it from legit site?

can't find it on HP. look to me is a fake.

 

[kidlatwarfreak]

buy it from legit site?

Yep. I have bough a handful of PC peripherals from this vendor, and this is the first time I have this issue.

 

[rgd1101]

return it. and is that first time you bought 2tb flash drive? is the price too good to be true?

 

[kidlatwarfreak]

The flash drive works perfectly before I reformatted it into NTFS. And now, I cant reformat it back to exFAT for some reason.

 

[rgd1101]

Works perfectly before I

did you have more then 256GB of data on it?

 

[USAFRet]

How much did you pay for this 2TB, and from where?

 

[kidlatwarfreak]

did you have more then 256GB of data on it?

Yes. It contains about 1TB of data before I reformat it.

 

[kidlatwarfreak]

I did a little bit of research and test, turns out the flash drive automatically overwrites its content once it reaches 32GB. I did not bother check it before since it looks normal. Appears that I have been scammed. Lesson learned I guess.

 

[USAFRet]

I did a little bit of research and test, turns out the flash drive automatically overwrites its content once it reaches 32GB. I did not bother check it before since it looks normal. Appears that I have been scammed. Lesson learned I guess.

Yep.
32GB sold as 2TB. Common scam.

A real 2TB flash drive is relatively expensive.