[SOLVED] pendrive wont format under linux as well as windows

[DRUNKCJ]

my college issued me a pendrive when i joined my college. it used to work fine and gave around 20MB/s write speeds. i was trying to create a bootable driveusing this pendrive and i saw i was getting terrible speeds . so i went into diskpart and cleaned the drive. since then i am not able to format the drive or create a partition table on the drive . both in linux as well as windows. fdisk allows me to create partitions but they are not made .
i ran usb disk info extrator and it gave out this info

Volume: E:
Controller: Unknown
Possible Memory Chip(s): Not available
VID: FFFF
PID: 5678
Manufacturer: USB
Product: Disk 2.0
Query Vendor ID: VendorCo
Query Product ID: ProductCode
Query Product Revision: 2.00
Physical Disk Capacity: 15938355200 Bytes
Windows Disk Capacity: 0 Bytes
Internal Tags: AB3X-AAEL
USB Version: 2.00
Declared Power: 100 mA
ContMeas ID: AB27-02-00
Microsoft Windows 10 x64 Build 19041
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is my usb dead or is it still recoverable?

 

[Grobe]

Try to use Gparted to format the pen drive, see if it works.

 

[DRUNKCJ]

Try to use Gparted to format the pen drive, see if it works.

yes i did try creating a partition using gparted. it asked me to create a new parition scheme ndd when i tried to create a dos parition it hanged and didnt create any.

 

[Grobe]

Ok, when you've used two independent ways to format the drive and both fails, then it must be the pen drive that's in bad condition. I'd toss it and buy another one.