Windows 10: USB Flash Drive Bricked?

Midway through slow formatting my USB flash drive, it suddenly crashed, probably because of exhaustion from the amount of time it takes to slow format, so it got corrupted. Now, whenever I plug the USB flash drive in, there is no notification nor a new drive/disk checked with diskpart, even though the red light does appear on the USB. The only thing new when plugging it in is the USB Mass Storage Device with the following error message:I even tried plugging it in on other computers, same thing. Uninstalling the device, same thing. None of the simple methods works.Here are the USB Flash Drive

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USB Flash Drive Not Recognised

To find what Navy suggest:: Open a CMD window as administrator and type: diskpart list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the USB drive number) select disk n (replace n by the USB drive number obtained with list disk) list part (is there more than one partition?) select part 1 detail part (is it ntfs or Fat32?) exit

 

USB Flash drive made bootable

Hi Nelson,

Check if there is any slide switch on the side that provides write protection. It show's a closed and open lock on each side. We suggest to follow these steps below:

• Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port.
• Click Start, type devmgmt.msc in the Search textbox and press Enter.
• Find Disk Drives and expand it.
• Find the USB flash drive you want to format, and double-click it. It opens the
  Properties dialog box.
• Click Policies tab.
• By default, the Optimize for quick removal option selected, switch it to Optimize for performance and then press
  OK.
• Now open Computer. Right click on the USB Flash Drive and select Format. The Format dialog box now appears.
• Select NTFS in the File System field.
• Press Start and wait while the process will be completed.

You can also connect the USB drive on a different computer and try formatting.

Let us know how it goes.

 

PNY Launches Brick Attaché USB Flash drive

PNY Technologies, Inc. (“PNY”) is considered a leading designer, manufacturer and a worldwide leader in DRAM Memory and Flash Memory products, today announced the new Brick Attaché USB Flash drive. This drive sports a unique, playful and fun building block design of children's toys, steering away from the traditional serious designs associated with USB flash drives.

PNY's new Brick Attaché drive is made of strong non-slip polymer material with a dotted embossed texture. The dark blue body has a wedge-shaped notch at the end far from the white cap, while the cap has a similar shaped protrusion, which fits snugly in this notch. This prevents the cap from getting lost. Additionally, if you have more than one such drives, you can connect them one after another forming a train or any such imaginary object according to your creativity.







The Brick Attaché is a tiny 6.6 g drive just 37.3 mm long, 18.3 mm wide and 9.3 mm tall, lending it extraordinary portability. In fact, it is so small that you will hardly notice it without the cap once it is inserted in a USB port. It comes with the USB 2.0 interface and in capacities ranging from 2 GB to 32 GB, thus allowing you to share, store and transfer photos, videos, music, documents and more with ease. The drive works with all recent versions of Windows and Mac OS 10.3 and above.

Product Specifications

• Storage Capacities: 2 GB, 4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB
• Dimensions: 9.3 mm (H) x 18.3 mm (W) x 37.3 mm (L)
• Weight: 6.6 g
• Interface: USB 2.0
• Performance:
  o 2 GB / 4 GB / 8 GB: Up to 8 MB/sec write, 24 MB/sec read
  o 16 GB / 32 GB: Up to 10 MB/sec write, 32 MB/sec read
• Warranty: 5 years

Learn more about PNY's latest fun to use flash drive here.