Question Is my USB flash drive dead?

[hw_user]

I have a 32G Kingston USB key. I only have it for a month. It's been working fine. This week I used it for building bootable systems. It has been formatted and reconfigured a few times RUFUS and Diskpart. The last time, I plugged it into my WIN 10 laptop, WIN 10 cannot detect it anymore. It is not showing up under File Explorer, disk management, or Diskpart list disk. If I plug another USB key into the same port, WIN 10 detects it with no problem. So I know that it is not WIN 10 on my laptop. I plugged this 32G Kingston USB key into my WIN 10 desktop. My desktop can not detect it either. Since it fails on two separate computers, it is more than likely that it is the USB key. But is the USB key physically bad (i.e. hardware issue) or it was bad data (partition information) that may have been corrupted by diskpart or Rufus? I am stuck because it is not showing up. Is there anything that I can do to resurrect the USB key?

 

[Lafong]

USB flash drives are cranky. Windows can frown at formatting them with a particular file system.

I'd try to find several different format tools and wipe it completely. If you find 4, only 1 may do the job.

Here's some I've used or tried to use in the past; they are all exe files.

HPUSBDisk

Ridgecrop_fat32_GUI_formatter

fat32format

guiformat

h2format

 

[hw_user]

USB flash drives are cranky. Windows can frown at formatting them with a particular file system.

I'd try to find several different format tools and wipe it completely. If you find 4, only 1 may do the job.

Here's some I've used or tried to use in the past; they are all exe files.

HPUSBDisk

Ridgecrop_fat32_GUI_formatter

fat32format

guiformat

h2format

Thanks for the quick response. But my problem is it is not showing up (even diskpart cannot see it). I cannot do any format without the OS seeing the drive first. But I may be wrong.