New USB but No Volume

[Marck Ignacio]

i bought a 16Gb USB few days ago now when i plug it in the laptop it wont show up but when i go to device and printers i found PRAM 2268 i look at the properties the device information only show the model and categories and all of the info are unavailable so i tried doing diskpart

i type in list disk and this came up

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 298 GB 0 B
Disk 1 No Media 0 B 0 B

DISKPART>

then i type in list volume

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B No Media
Volume 1 C S3A9565D003 NTFS Partition 283 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 System NTFS Partition 1500 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 3 D Removable 0 B No Media

DISKPART>

the Volume 3 is my USB but it doesn't have storage on it. why?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

It's probably faulty, maybe even left the factory faulty. A cheapo unit by the sound of it, might even be a fake from China (plenty of 16GB fake pen drives in circulation).

Buy a new pen drive, a well-known brand like Sandisk or Kingston. And if you can, stay away from 16GB ones. Get less if you can.

 

[Marck Ignacio]

We bought 2 of them on Kmart on Australia my sister has one it worked perfectly she puts movie on it and plug in the tv and the second usb just doesnt work

 

[Marck Ignacio]

dont worry anymore i switch the usb in the shop without the receipt :3