Kingston DT101 G2 - cannot access or format

[3ogdy]

New memory stick is giving me serious headaches. I specifically avoided SanDisk as I've owned a couple of their memory sticks , 40GB in total..and they went to hell by becoming read-only. SanDisk acknowledged the issue and didn't provide a fix or new memory sticks. Hell of a company, but I learned my lesson as I specifically avoided their products this time around.

NOW:
The drive is DT 101 G2 8GB. Today Windows asked me to format it, to my surprise, as it worked perfectly fine when I first connected it and I put data on it and left it like that, I haven't really used the drive in a couple of weeks or so. (it's quite a new drive).
I didn't want to format as I can't remember exactly what data I had on it..but then I went with it....only to find out I couldn't format it.

Tried:
1.Formatting through context menu by right clicking on the memory stick drive.

2.Tried using the Kingston Tool.

3.Went to Computer Management and tried to create a partition - drive letter doesn't even appear over there, but it does appear under Computer.

4.Start->cmd with full admin rights-> format G: /fs:fat32. Verifying 7388M....a century later :
"15033310 bad sectors were encountered during the format. These sectors cannot be guaranteed to have been cleaned. Invaid media or Track 0 bad - disk unusable."

5.Used Partition Master - 7.22GB appear as unallocated -> CREATE NEW PARTITION-> half a century later-> "There are some error occurred while writing partition chains on disk."


What next?

I tried to check my drive to see if it was a counterfeit product but I can't seem to find a page for that on Kingston.com
Drive info:
DT101G2/8GB
C4415-456.A00LF 5V
OS 6742831 TAIWAN

 

[herrwizo]

Test the stick on a different computer and see if the issues persist. If they do, the stick is dead. If everything works on the other computer, it might be your BIOS, your OS, applications or USB controllers misbehaving, but this will need a further investigation.